GEORGE CANO v. THE STATE OF TEXAS--Appeal from 347th District Court of Nueces County

NUMBERS 13-11-00095-CR

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

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GEORGE CANO, Appellant,

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.

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On appeal from the 347th District Court

of Nueces County, Texas.

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 MEMORANDUM OPINION

Before Justices Benavides, Vela, and Perkes

Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

Appellant, George Cano, pro se, attempted to perfect an appeal from a conviction for the second degree felony offense of burglary of a building in trial court cause number 88-CR-992-H. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

The judgment in this cause was entered in 1988. Appellant filed a pro se notice of appeal on February 22, 2011. That same day, the Clerk of this Court notified appellant that it appeared that the appeal was not timely perfected. Appellant was advised that the appeal would be dismissed if the defect was not corrected within ten days from the date of receipt of the Court=s directive. Appellant has not responded to the Court s directive.

This Court's appellate jurisdiction in a criminal case is invoked by a timely filed notice of appeal. Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996). Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.2 provides that an appeal is perfected when notice of appeal is filed within thirty days after the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court unless a motion for new trial is timely filed. Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1). 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. Absent a timely filed notice of appeal, a court of appeals does not obtain jurisdiction to address the merits of the appeal in a criminal case 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).

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) (West Supp. 2010); see also Ex parte Garcia, 988 S.W.2d 240 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999); Ater v. Eighth Court of Appeals, 802 S.W.2d 241 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991).

This appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION.

PER CURIAM

Do not publish.

Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the

28th day of July, 2011.