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COURT OF APPEALS

COURT
OF APPEALS
EIGHTH
DISTRICT OF TEXAS
EL
PASO, TEXAS
 
BENITO PEREZ,                                                  )
                                                                              )              
No.  08-04-00211-CR
Appellant,                          )
                                                                              )                    Appeal from the
v.                                                                           )
                                                                              )                
240th District Court
THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                     )
                                                                              )          
of Fort Bend County, Texas
Appellee.                           )
                                                                              )                     (TC# 33,639)
                                                                              )
 
 
MEMORANDUM  OPINION
 
This is an
attempted appeal from a judgment revoking probation and imposing a sentence of
10 years= and 1
month confinement.  The issue before this
Court is whether Appellant timely filed his notice of appeal.  We conclude that he did not and dismiss the
attempted appeal for want of jurisdiction.
In this case, the
trial court render its judgment and imposed the sentence on March 31,
2004.  Appellant filed a notice of appeal
on June 1, 2004, sixty-one days after the trial court=s
judgment imposing the sentence.

A timely notice of
appeal is necessary to invoke the jurisdiction of this Court.  Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522
(Tex.Crim.App. 1996).  Tex.R.App.P. 26.2(a) prescribes the
time period in which notice of appeal must be filed by the defendant in order
to perfect appeal in a criminal case:
(a)        By the Defendant.  The notice of appeal must be filed:
 
(1)        within 30 days after the day sentence is
imposed or suspended in open court, or after the day the trial court enters an
appealable order; or
 
(2)        within 90 days after the day sentence is
imposed or suspended in open court if the defendant timely files a motion for
new trial.
 
Therefore, a defendant=s notice of appeal is timely if filed
within thirty days after the day the trial court enters an appealable
order.  Tex.R.App.P.
26.2(a); Olivo, 918 S.W.2d at 522. 
Rule 26.3 allows for an exception: 
The appellate court may extend the time to file the notice of appeal if,
within fifteen days after the deadline for filing the notice of appeal, the
party; (a) files in the trial court the notice of appeal; and (b) files in the
appellate court a motion complying with Rule 10.5(b), reasonably explaining the
need for the extension of time.  Tex.R.App.P. 26.3; Tex.R.App.P. 10.5(b)(2).  A late notice of appeal may be considered
timely so as to invoke the appellate court=s
jurisdiction if:  (1) it is filed within
fifteen days of the last day allowed for filing; (2) a motion for extension of
time is filed in the appellate court within fifteen days of the last day
allowed for filing the notice of appeal; and (3) the appellate court grants the
motion for extension of time.  Olivo,
918 S.W.2d at 522.

The last date
allowed for timely filing of the notice of appeal was April 30, 2004, thirty
days after the day the trial court entered the sentence.  Tex.R.App.P.
26.2(a)(1).  Appellant did not file his
notice of appeal until June 1, 2004 and failed to file a motion for extension
of time.  Therefore, Appellant failed to
perfect this appeal.  Accordingly, we
dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.
 
 
September
2, 2004
DAVID WELLINGTON
CHEW, Justice
 
Before Panel No. 3
Barajas, C.J., Larsen, and Chew, JJ.
 
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