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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed November 3,
2005.
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of Appeals
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NO. 14-05-01046-CR
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BEATRICE MOORE a/k/a BEATRICE
SANDERS, Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the
174th District Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 1030108
 

 
M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
After a plea of guilty, appellant was convicted of the
offense of theft $20,000-$100,000 (Supplemental Security Income) and sentenced
on August 23, 2005, to 25 years= incarceration in the Institutional Division of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice.  No
timely motion for new trial was filed. 
Appellant=s notice of appeal was not filed until October 3, 2005.




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.
Additionally, the trial court entered a certification of the
defendant=s right to appeal in which the court
certified that this is a plea bargain case, and the defendant has no right of
appeal.  See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2).  The trial court=s certification is included in the
record on appeal.  See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d).
Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal.  
 
 
PER CURIAM
 
Judgment rendered and Memorandum
Opinion filed November 3, 2005.
Panel consists of Justices Hudson,
Frost, and Seymore.
Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App.
P. 47.2(b).
 

