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<P><STRONG><CENTER>NO. 03-96-00235-CR</CENTER>
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<P><STRONG><CENTER>James William Robinson, Appellant</CENTER>
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<P><STRONG><CENTER>v.</CENTER>
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<P><STRONG><CENTER>The State of Texas, Appellee</CENTER>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times" STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><STRONG><CENTER>FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 1 OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY</CENTER>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times" STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><STRONG><CENTER>NO. 95-0997-1, HONORABLE KEVIN HENDERSON, JUDGE PRESIDING</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times"><STRONG></CENTER>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times"><STRONG>PER CURIAM</STRONG></SPAN></P>

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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times">	A jury found appellant guilty of assault and assessed punishment at incarceration
for 365 days and a $2000 fine.  Imposition of sentence was suspended and appellant was placed
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times">	Sentence was suspended in open court on March 1, 1996.  Appellant's motion for
new trial and notice of appeal were filed on April 4.  In response to our notice, counsel for
appellant concedes that the motion for new trial was not timely filed.  Tex. R. App. P. 31(a)(1). 
She urges that notice of appeal was timely, however, because it was filed within thirty days after
the judgment of conviction was signed.  But in an appeal from a judgment of conviction, the time
for perfecting appeal begins to run on the day sentence is imposed or suspended in open court,
and not on the day the judgment is signed.  <EM>Rodarte v. State</EM>, 860 S.W.2d 108, 109 (Tex. Crim.
App. 1993); Tex. R. App. P. 40(b)(1).  Appellant's notice of appeal was filed three days late.</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times">	Without a timely filed notice of appeal, this Court is without jurisdiction.  <EM>Rodarte</EM>,
860 S.W.2d at 110; <EM>Shute v. State</EM>, 744 S.W.2d 96 (Tex. Crim. App. 1988).  The appeal is
dismissed.<STRONG><A HREF="#N_1_"><SUP> (1)</SUP></A></STRONG></SPAN></P>

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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times">Before Chief Justice Carroll, Justices Aboussie and Kidd</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times">Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times">Filed:   June 5, 1996</SPAN></P>

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<P><A NAME="N_1_">1. </A>     <STRONG>&nbsp;&nbsp;Appellant's motion to extend time for filing statement of facts is dismissed.
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