Court Opinion

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NO. 07-04-0320-CR

                             IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

                      FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                      AT AMARILLO

                                         PANEL B

                                     JUNE 11, 2004

                          ______________________________

                     JONATHAN MICHAEL ARMIJO, APPELLANT

                                            V.

                          THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                        _________________________________

            FROM THE 181ST DISTRICT COURT OF RANDALL COUNTY;

              NO. 13,363-B; HONORABLE RICHARD DAMBOLD, JUDGE

                         _______________________________

Before JOHNSON, C.J., and QUINN and CAMPBELL, JJ.

                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Appellant, Jonathan Armijo, pled guilty to the offense of delivery of a controlled

substance and was sentenced to eight years confinement in the Texas Department of

Criminal Justice-Institutional Division. The sentence was imposed on June 2, 2003. On

May 28, 2004, appellant filed a pro se notice of appeal with the trial court.
       Our appellate jurisdiction over a criminal appeal is triggered through a timely notice

of appeal. Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex.Crim.App. 1996); see State v. Riewe,

13 S.W.3d 408, 410 (Tex.Crim.App. 2000). In the absence of a notice of appeal timely

filed in compliance with the requirements of Rule of Appellate Procedure 26, a court of

appeals does not obtain jurisdiction to address the merits of the appeal in a criminal case,

and can take no action other than to dismiss the appeal. Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208,

210 (Tex.Crim.App. 1998). As applicable here, Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.2(a)

requires a notice of appeal in a criminal case be filed within 30 days after the day sentence

is imposed in open court, or within 90 days after imposition of the sentence if a timely

motion for new trial is filed.

       As noted, appellant’s sentence was imposed on June 2, 2003. The record does not

indicate whether appellant filed a motion for new trial. Regardless, appellant’s notice of

appeal, filed more than eleven months later, was untimely. Appellant’s failure to file a

timely notice of appeal prevents this court from having jurisdiction over his appeal.

       Accordingly, appellant’s appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Tex. R. App. P.

39.8, 40.2, 43.2(f).

                                          James T. Campbell
                                              Justice

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