Court Opinion

ID: 4363279
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Date Created: 2019-01-31 00:48:37.370702+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:18:11.629882
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In The

                               Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                              NO. 09-18-00453-CR
                              NO. 09-18-00454-CR
                              NO. 09-18-00455-CR
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                    RONALD EDWIN DUNCAN, Appellant

                                        V.

                        THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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               On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1
                         Montgomery County, Texas
            Trial Cause Nos. 18-330373, 18-330374, and 18-330375
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The trial court sentenced Ronald Edwin Duncan on October 15, 2018. The

notices of appeal were due to be filed on November 14, 2018. See Tex. R. App. P.

26.2(a)(1). A notice of appeal was not filed until November 21, 2018, and Duncan

did not timely file a motion for extension of time to file the notice of appeal. See

Tex. R. App. P. 26.3.

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      On December 10, 2018, we notified the parties that the appeals had not been

timely perfected and that the appeals would be dismissed unless a written response

is filed in this Court showing cause why these appeals should not be dismissed for

lack of jurisdiction. Duncan filed a response but failed to demonstrate that our

appellate jurisdiction was invoked within the time permitted for perfecting the

appeals.

      A timely notice of appeal is necessary to invoke appellate jurisdiction. See

Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 209 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998); Olivo v. State, 918
S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). “When a notice of appeal, but no motion

for extension of time, is filed within the 15-day period, the court of appeals can take

no action other than to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.” Aleman v. State,

554 S.W.3d 794, 795 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2018, no pet.). We dismiss

the appeals for lack of jurisdiction.

      APPEALS DISMISSED.

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                                                      LEANNE JOHNSON
                                                            Justice

Submitted on January 29, 2019
Opinion Delivered January 30, 2019
Do Not Publish

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.
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