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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed March 4, 2004.
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of Appeals
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NO. 14-04-00138-CR
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MELVIN WAYNE WILLIAMS,
Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF
TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the
21st District Court
Burleson County,
Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 12,373
 

 
M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
After a plea of guilty to the offense of sexual assault,
appellant was placed on deferred adjudication probation on March 8, 2002.  The State moved to revoke probation and
adjudicate the deferred sentence.  After
signing a judicial confession, a stipulation of evidence, and a plea bargain, appellant
was adjudicated guilty of the offense of sexual assault and was sentenced on
August 18, 2003, to nine years= incarceration in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,
Institutional Division.  Appellant was
also assessed a fine of $2,500.00. No timely motion for new trial was
filed.  Appellant=s notice of appeal was not filed
until January 16, 2004.




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 March 4, 2004.
Panel consists of Justices Fowler,
Edelman, and Seymore.
Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).
 

