Ronney Williams v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: January 26, 2006
• Docket: 14-06-00021-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed January 26, 2006

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed January 26, 2006.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-06-00021-CR

RONNEY WILLIAMS, Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the 338th District Court

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 628,066

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

Appellant entered a guilty plea to possession of a controlled substance.  In accordance with the terms of a plea bargain agreement with the State, the trial court sentenced appellant on November 23, 1992, to confinement for fifteen years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  No timely motion for new trial was filed.   Appellant=s pro se notice of appeal was not filed until December 21, 2005.

A defendant=s notice of appeal must be filed within thirty days after sentence is imposed when the defendant has not filed a motion for new trial.  See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1).  A notice of appeal which complies with the requirements of Rule 26 is essential to vest the court of appeals with jurisdiction.  Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998).  If an appeal is not timely perfected, a court of appeals does not obtain jurisdiction to address the merits of the appeal.  Under those circumstances it can take no action other than to dismiss the appeal.  Id.

Accordingly, the appeal is ordered dismissed.

PER CURIAM

Judgment rendered and Memorandum Opinion filed January 26, 2006.

Panel consists of Justices Fowler, Edelman, and Guzman.

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