Armando Anaya v. State

Opinion

In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

No. 07-18-00376-CR

ARMANDO ANAYA, APPELLANT

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

On Appeal from the 140th District Court Lubbock County, Texas Trial Court No. 2013-439,055, Honorable Jim Bob Darnell, Presiding

November 2, 2018

MEMORANDUM OPINION Before QUINN, C.J., and PIRTLE and PARKER, JJ.

Appellant Armando Anaya attempts to appeal his conviction for aggravated assault

and sentence to twenty years’ imprisonment. We dismiss the appeal for want of

jurisdiction.

Appellant’s sentence was imposed on July 18, 2013. Because appellant did not

file a motion for new trial, his notice of appeal was due within thirty days, by August 19,

2013. See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a)(1) (requiring a notice of appeal to be filed within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed), 4.1(a). Appellant did not file a notice of appeal

until October 11, 2018.

A timely notice of appeal is required to invoke this court’s appellate jurisdiction.

Castillo v. State, 369 S.W.3d 196, 198 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012). If the notice is untimely,

a court of appeals can take no action other than to dismiss the proceeding for lack of

jurisdiction. Id. Because appellant’s notice of appeal was untimely filed, we have no

jurisdiction over the matter and must dismiss the appeal.

Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.1

Per Curiam

Do not publish.

1The appropriate vehicle for seeking an out-of-time appeal from a final felony conviction is by writ of habeas corpus pursuant to article 11.07 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.