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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed August 26,
2004.
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of Appeals
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NO. 14-04-00752-CR
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BENJAMIN LEON BLUE,
Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF
TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the
263rd District Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 921,393
 

 
M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of the offense of
evading arrest with a motor vehicle and sentenced on June 16, 2003, to 25 years= incarceration in the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division.  No timely motion for new trial was
filed.  Appellant=s notice of appeal was not filed
until July 15, 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 August 26, 2004.
Panel consists of Justices
Anderson, Hudson, and Frost.
Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b).
 

