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Dismissed
and Memorandum Opinion filed June 25, 2009.
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of
Appeals
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NO. 14-09-00316-CR
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BRITTNEY BELISE HECKARD, Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the
268th District Court
Fort Bend County,
Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 46,012
 

 
M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
Appellant
entered a guilty plea to arson without an agreed recommendation on punishment. 
On December 8, 2009, the trial court sentenced appellant to confinement for ten
years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice, probated for five years, and assessed a fine of $100.  No timely
motion for new trial was filed.  Appellant=s notice of appeal was not filed
until March 3, 2009.




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 that 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 Chief Justice Hedges and Justices
Yates and Frost. 
Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App. P.
47.2(b).
 

