Opinion
Nos. 05-05-01037-CR, 05-05-01038-CR
Opinion Filed September 23, 2005. DO NOT PUBLISH. Tex.R.App.P. 47.
On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 2, Grayson County, Texas, Trial Court Cause Nos. 2002-2-757, 2002-1-761. Dismiss.
Before Justices WRIGHT, BRIDGES, and FITZGERALD.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Manuel Medina Ruiz entered negotiated guilty pleas to two offenses of assault involving family violence. Pursuant to the plea agreements, the trial judge assessed punishment in each case at 365 days' confinement in jail, probated for two years, and a $300 fine. The State later moved to revoke appellant's community supervision. Thereafter, appellant filed applications for writ of habeas corpus challenging the original guilty pleas. The trial judge heard the habeas corpus and revocation proceedings together, denied habeas corpus relief, revoked appellant's community supervision, and sentenced him to 365 days' in jail in each case. The appeals from the denial of the habeas corpus relief are docketed as cause nos. 05-05-00939-CR and 05-05-00947-CR, Ex parte Manuel Medina Ruiz. Because it appeared appellant was seeking to appeal both the habeas corpus proceedings and the probation revocation proceedings, we ordered the probation revocation proceedings docketed separately, as the above appeals. However, appellant never filed notices of appeal related to the probation revocation proceedings, and the notices of appeal in the habeas corpus records reference only that ruling. We directed appellant and the State to file letter briefs addressing our jurisdiction over the above appeals absent notices of appeal. Appellant filed briefs in the habeas corpus appeals, instead, and states in those briefs that "[t]he revocations in each case are not the issue," and sets out several reasons for that statement. We need not determine whether appellant's reasons are accurate because absent timely notices of appeal, we have no jurisdiction over these appeals. Sentence was imposed in each case on May 26, 2005. No motion for new trial was filed; therefore, appellant's notice of appeal was due by Monday, June 27, 2005. See Tex.R.App.P. 4.1(a), 26.2(a)(1). Appellant did not file notices of appeal in these cases by June 27, 2005; therefore, we have no jurisdiction over the appeals. See Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex.Crim.App. 1998) (per curiam); Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 523 (Tex.Crim.App. 1996); Boyd v. State, 971 S.W.2d 603, 605-06 (Tex.App.-Dallas 1998, no pet.). We dismiss the appeals for want of jurisdiction.