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Dismissed and Opinion filed August 21, 2003.
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of Appeals
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NO. 14-03-00872-CR
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RAUL FLORES, Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the 337th District Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 894,637
 

 
M
E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
After a guilty plea, appellant was convicted of the offense
of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and was sentenced
on February 7, 2003, to 60 years= imprisonment in the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. 
Appellant=s notice of appeal was not filed until July 31, 2003.




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 Opinion
filed August 21, 2003.
Panel consists of Justices Yates,
Hudson, and Fowler.
Do Not Publish C Tex. R.
App. P. 47.2(b).
 

