Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-17 08:09:50.569233+00
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-23-00070-CR

          ERICA JUNE LOVEWELL, Appellant

                            V.

           THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

          On Appeal from the 5th District Court
                 Bowie County, Texas
             Trial Court No. 19F1331-005

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
       Memorandum Opinion by Justice van Cleef
                               MEMORANDUM OPINION

        Erica June Lovewell has filed an untimely notice of appeal from the trial court’s

judgment revoking her community supervision and sentencing her to two years’ incarceration for

possession of a controlled substance. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

        Sentence was imposed in this matter on October 31, 2022, and Lovewell did not file a

motion for new trial.     As a result, Lovewell’s notice of appeal was due on or before

November 30, 2022. See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1). Lovewell did not file her notice of appeal

until March 30, 2023, well past the deadline for filing such notice. Consequently, Lovewell’s

attempt to appeal her revocation judgment in this matter was untimely. The Texas Court of

Criminal Appeals has expressly held that, without a timely filed notice of appeal, we cannot

exercise jurisdiction over an appeal. See Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App.

1996); see also Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 209 n.3 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998) (per curiam).

        By letter dated April 21, 2023, we notified Lovewell that her notice of appeal appeared to

be untimely and that the appeal was subject to dismissal for want of jurisdiction. We gave

Lovewell twenty days to respond to our letter and to demonstrate how we have jurisdiction over

the appeal notwithstanding the noted defect. Lovewell did not respond to our letter.

        Because Lovewell did not timely file her notice of appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want

of jurisdiction.

                                             Charles van Cleef
                                             Justice
Date Submitted:        May 15, 2023
Date Decided:          May 16, 2023

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