

Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed May 6, 2010.
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of
Appeals
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NO. 14-10-00353-CR
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JERARDO GONZALEZ, Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the 412th District Court
Brazoria County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 59,463
 

 
MEMORANDUM
OPINION
After a plea of guilty, appellant was convicted of the
offense of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and
sentenced to six and a half years in prison on October 14, 2009.  No timely
motion for new trial was filed.  Appellant’s notice of appeal was not filed
until April 12, 2010.
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
 
Panel consists of Justices
Anderson, Frost, and Seymore.
Do Not Publish — Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).
 

