Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-09-10 23:13:21.651494+00
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NO. 12-09-00307-CR

                       IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

          TWELFTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT

                                    TYLER, TEXAS

LARRY WAYNE CARPENTER,                         §              APPEAL FROM THE 173RD
APPELLANT

V.                                             §              JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
APPELLEE                                       §              HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS
                               MEMORANDUM OPINION
                                      PER CURIAM
       This appeal is being dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Appellant was convicted of
driving while intoxicated. Sentence was imposed on July 29, 2009.
       Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.2 provides that an appeal is perfected when notice
of appeal is filed within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court
unless a motion for new trial is timely filed. TEX . R. APP . P. 26.2(a)(1). Where a timely motion
for new trial has been filed, notice of appeal shall be filed within ninety days after the sentence is
imposed or suspended in open court. TEX . R. APP . P. 26.2(a)(2). To be timely, a motion for new
trial in a criminal case must be filed not later than thirty days after the date sentence is imposed
or suspended in open court. TEX . R. APP . P. 21.4(a). Appellant filed a motion for new trial on
September 17, 2009. Because the motion for new trial was filed fifty days after the date sentence
was imposed in open court, the motion was untimely and did not extend the time for filing
Appellant’s notice of appeal. See id. Therefore, Appellant’s notice of appeal was due to have
been filed on or before August 28, 2009. However, Appellant did not file his notice of appeal
until September 21, 2009 and did not file a motion for extension of time to file his notice of
appeal. See TEX . R. APP . P. 26.3 (appellate court may extend time for filing notice of appeal if,
within fifteen days after deadline for filing notice of appeal, appellant files notice of appeal in
trial court and motion complying with Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 10.5(b) in appellate
court).
          On September 23, 2009, this court notified Appellant that his notice of appeal was
untimely and that there was no timely motion for an extension of time to file the notice of appeal
as permitted by rule 26.3. Appellant was further informed that the appeal would be dismissed
unless, on or before October 5, 2009, the information filed in this appeal was amended to show
the jurisdiction of this court. The October 5, 2009 deadline has passed, and Appellant has neither
responded to this court’s notice nor otherwise shown the jurisdiction of this court.
          Because this court has no authority to allow the late filing of a notice of appeal except as
provided by rule 26.3, the appeal must be dismissed. See Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210
(Tex. Crim. App. 1998); Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996).
Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
Opinion delivered October 14, 2009.
Panel consisted of Worthen, C.J., Griffith, J., and Hoyle, J.

                                              (DO NOT PUBLISH)

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