Opinion
No. 14-02-01083-CR.
Opinion Filed January 16, 2003. DO NOT PUBLISH, Tex.R.App.P. 47.2(b).
Appeal from the 262nd District Court, Harris County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. 899,170. Dismissed.
Before Justices YATES, ANDERSON, and FROST.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
After a guilty plea, appellant received deferred adjudication probation on January 14, 2002. On May 22, 2002, appellant was adjudicated guilty of the offense of burglary of a habitation and sentenced to five years' confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Institutional Division. No motion for new trial was filed. Appellant's notice of appeal was not filed until September 26, 2002. 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. See 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. See id. Accordingly, the appeal is ordered dismissed. Judgment rendered and Opinion filed January 16, 2003.