Court Opinion

ID: 4439790
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-09-19 18:16:32.12584+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:02:36.872939
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IN THE
                         TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

                                No. 10-19-00320-CR

DAVID LEN SIMS,
                                                           Appellant
v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
                                                           Appellee

                           From the 13th District Court
                             Navarro County, Texas
                           Trial Court No. D36869-CR

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      David Len Sims was convicted in 2017 and sentenced to 82 years in prison. His

conviction was affirmed on appeal. See Sims v. State, No. 10-17-00170-CR, 2019 Tex. App.

LEXIS 1036 (Tex. App.—Waco Feb. 13, 2019, pet. ref’d) (not designated for publication).

Sims now requests that this Court grant Sims an out-of-time appeal so that he may

complain about the representation of his retained counsel. This request was set up in the

Court's system as a new notice of appeal.

      We lack jurisdiction to grant an out-of-time appeal; that authority belongs
exclusively to the Court of Criminal Appeals through a writ of habeas corpus. See Parr v.

State, 206 S.W.3d 143, 144-45 (Tex. App.—Waco 2006, no pet.).

        Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed, and Sims’ motion for an out-of-time appeal

is dismissed as moot.

                                         TOM GRAY
                                         Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Gray,
       Justice Davis, and
       Justice Neill
Appeal dismissed
Opinion delivered and filed September 18, 2019
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