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NUMBER 13-15-00192-CR

                               COURT OF APPEALS

                    THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                         CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

KEVIN RAY RANGEL                                                           Appellant,

                                           v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                                         Appellee.

                        On appeal from the 389th District Court
                              of Hidalgo County, Texas.

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Garza, Benavides, and Perkes
                  Memorandum Opinion by Justice Perkes

       Appellant, Kevin Ray Rangel, attempted to perfect an appeal from a conviction for

indecency with a child. The trial court imposed sentence in this matter on May 21, 2013.

Appellant filed a “Late Notice of Appeal” on April 20, 2015. We dismiss the appeal for

want of jurisdiction.

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

notice of appeal. Olive 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 have jurisdiction to address the

merits of the appeal 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).

       Unless a motion for new trial has been timely filed, a notice of appeal must be filed

within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court, or after

the day the trial court enters an appealable order. TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). Where a

timely motion for new trial has been filed, the notice of appeal must be filed within ninety

days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court. See id. 26.2(a)(2).

The time within which to file the notice may be enlarged if, within fifteen days after the

deadline for filing the notice, the party files the notice of appeal and a motion complying

with Rule 10.5(b) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. See id. 26.3.

       Appellant’s notice of appeal, filed more than twenty-two months after sentence was

imposed, was untimely, and accordingly, we lack jurisdiction over the appeal.           See

Slaton, 981 S.W.2d at 210. 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) (Vernon 2005); see also Ex parte Garcia, 988
S.W.2d 240 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999).

       The appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION.

                                                    PER CURIAM

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed the
7th day of May, 2015.

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