James Anderson v. The State of Texas Appeal from 396th District Court of Tarrant County (memorandum opinion )

 Annotate this Case
Download PDF
COURT OF APPEALS SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH NO. 02-16-00289-CR NO. 02-16-00290-CR NO. 02-16-00291-CR NO. 02-16-00292-CR NO. 02-16-00293-CR JAMES ANDERSON APPELLANT V. THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE ---------FROM THE 396TH DISTRICT COURT OF TARRANT COUNTY TRIAL COURT NOS. 1400600D, 1404365D, 1406598D, 1400502D, 1400287D ---------- MEMORANDUM OPINION1 ---------Appellant James Anderson attempts to appeal from the trial court’s five February 3, 2016 judgments convicting him of aggravated robbery. 1 See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4. On July 21, 2016, we sent Anderson a letter stating that because no motion for new trial had been filed in any of these cases, his notices of appeal in these cases appeared to be untimely because they were due March 4, 2016, but not filed until July 15, 2016. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1). We informed Anderson of our concern that we lacked jurisdiction over the appeals because of his late notices of appeal and stated that unless he or any party desiring to continue the appeals filed a response showing grounds for continuing the appeals by August 1, 2016, we would dismiss the appeals for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.3. Anderson filed a pro se response and his attorney also filed a response, but neither response shows grounds for continuing the appeals. See Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998) (holding that if an appeal is not timely perfected, a court of appeals does not obtain jurisdiction to address the appeal’s merits and may take no action other than to dismiss the appeal). Therefore, we dismiss the appeals. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1), 43.2(f). /s/ Bonnie Sudderth BONNIE SUDDERTH JUSTICE PANEL: LIVINGSTON, C.J.; DAUPHINOT and SUDDERTH, JJ. DO NOT PUBLISH Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b) DELIVERED: August 11, 2016 2

Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.