Court Opinion

ID: 9648921
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:38:10.232125+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:06.388182
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MIRABAL, JUSTICE,
dissenting.
I dissent.
In this case, the deadline for filing the notice of appeal in the trial court was Friday, July 10, 1998. The pro se appellant mailed his notice of appeal on July 3, 1998, to:
Clerk of Court
1307 San Jacinto 11th Floor
Houston, Texas 77002
On Monday, July 6, 1998, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals stamped the notice of appeal as “Received.” The Fourteenth Court *607of Appeals then sent the notice of appeal to the district clerk of Harris County, who file-stamped the notice of appeal as “Filed” on Tuesday, July 14,1998.
A reasonable inference from this record is that the Fourteenth Court of Appeals mailed the notice of appeal, addressed to the proper clerk, on or before the last day for filing, Friday, July 10, 1998. Therefore, because the notice of appeal was received by the proper clerk on July 14, which was within ten days after the filing deadline, we must consider the notice of appeal timely filed. Tex. R.App.P. 9.2. Accordingly, we have jurisdiction of this appeal.