Court Opinion

ID: 7804295
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-08-29 00:17:11.94908+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:29:49.514493
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NUMBER 13-22-00373-CR

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
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LORI ANN CANO,                                                             Appellant,

                                          v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
____________________________________________________________

              On appeal from the 28th District Court
                   of Burnet County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

              Before Justices Benavides, Hinojosa, and Silva
                Memorandum Opinion by Justice Hinojosa

      On June 30, 2022, appellant attempted to perfect an appeal from a conviction of

forgery of a government or financial instrument entered in trial court cause number

CR13000716-A. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

      Sentence in this matter was imposed with a judgment of conviction on April 14,

2022. On August 11, 2022, the Clerk of the Court notified appellant that it appeared the
appeal was not timely perfected. Appellant was advised the appeal would be dismissed

if the defect was not corrected within ten days from the date of receipt of the notice.

         This Court’s appellate jurisdiction in a criminal case is invoked by a timely filed

notice of appeal. Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). Absent a

timely filed notice of appeal, 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 for want of jurisdiction. Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App.

1998). Appellant may be entitled to an out-of-time appeal by filing a post-conviction writ

of habeas corpus returnable to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; however, the

availability of that remedy is beyond the jurisdiction of this Court. See TEX. CODE CRIM.

PROC. ANN. art. 11.07, § 3(a); see also Ex parte Garcia, 988 S.W.2d 240 (Tex. Crim. App.

1999).

         Therefore, the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

                                                          LETICIA HINOJOSA
                                                          Justice

Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed on the
25th day of August, 2022.

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