Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-10 08:08:50.332848+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:53.161631
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-23-00061-CR

           JESSICA ANN CAHALL, Appellant

                            V.

           THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

          On Appeal from the 5th District Court
                 Bowie County, Texas
             Trial Court No. 17F1143-005

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
        Memorandum Opinion by Justice Rambin
                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Jessica Ann Cahall has filed an untimely notice of appeal from the trial court’s judgment

revoking her community supervision and sentencing her to two years’ incarceration for

possession of a controlled substance. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

       Sentence was imposed in this matter on January 9, 2023, and Cahall did not file a motion

for new trial. As a result, Cahall’s notice of appeal was due on or before February 8, 2023. See

TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). Cahall’s notice of appeal was not filed until March 24, 2023, forty-

four days past the deadline for filing such notice. Consequently, Cahall’s attempt to appeal her

revocation judgment in this matter was untimely. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has

expressly held that, without a timely filed notice of appeal, we cannot exercise jurisdiction over

an appeal. See Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996); see also Slaton v.

State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 209 n.3 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998) (per curiam).

       By letter dated April 6, 2023, we notified Cahall that her notice of appeal appeared to be

untimely and that the appeal was subject to dismissal for want of jurisdiction. We gave Cahall

twenty days to respond to our letter and to demonstrate how we have jurisdiction over the appeal

notwithstanding the noted defect.     Although Cahall responded to our letter, she failed to

demonstrate how we have jurisdiction over her appeal.

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        Because Cahall did not timely file her notice of appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of

jurisdiction.

                                             Jeff Rambin
                                             Justice

Date Submitted:        May 8, 2023
Date Decided:          May 9, 2023

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