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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed July 20, 2006

Dismissed
and Memorandum Opinion filed July 20, 2006.
 
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of
Appeals
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NO. 14-06-00576-CR
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TRACY LEE TURNER,
Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the 263rd District Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 1052373
 

 
M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
 Appellant
entered a guilty plea to credit/debit card abuse.  In accordance with the terms
of a plea bargain agreement with the State, the trial court sentenced appellant
on May 19, 2006, to confinement for six months in the State Jail Division of
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  No timely motion for new trial was
filed.  Appellant=s pro se notice of appeal was not filed until June 20, 2006.

A
defendant=s notice of appeal must be filed within thirty days after sentence is
imposed when the defendant has not filed a motion for new trial.  See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1).  A notice
of appeal which complies with the requirements of Rule 26 is essential to vest
the court of appeals with jurisdiction.  Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d
208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998).  If an appeal is not timely perfected, a court
of appeals does not obtain jurisdiction to address the merits of the appeal. 
Under those circumstances it can take no action other than to dismiss the
appeal.  Id.
Moreover,
the trial court entered a certification of the defendant=s right to appeal in which the court
certified that this is a plea bargain case, and the defendant has no right of
appeal.  See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2). 
The trial court=s certification is included in the record on appeal.  See
Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d).  The
record supports the trial court=s certification.  See Dears v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610,
615 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).
Accordingly,
the appeal is ordered dismissed.
 
PER
CURIAM
 
Judgment rendered and Memorandum Opinion filed July
20, 2006.
Panel consists of Justices Hudson, Fowler, and
Seymore.
Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App. P.
47.2(b).