PER CURIAM

After accepting appellant's guilty plea and judicial confession, the district court found appellant guilty of forgery. Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 32.21 (West 1994). Pursuant to a plea bargain agreement, the court assessed punishment, enhanced by a previous felony conviction, at confinement in a state jail for two years, suspended imposition of sentence, and placed appellant on community supervision for four years.

Sentence was imposed in this cause on February 12, 1996. No motion for new trial was filed. Notice of appeal was filed on March 18, 1996, five days after it was due. Tex. R. App. P. 41(b)(1). No extension of time for filing notice of appeal was requested. Tex. R. App. P. 41(b)(2). There is nothing in the record to indicate that notice of appeal was properly mailed to the district clerk within the time prescribed by rule 41(b)(1). Tex. R. App. P. 4(b). Without a timely filed notice of appeal, this Court is without jurisdiction. Rodarte v. State, 860 S.W.2d 108 (Tex. Crim. App. 1993); Shute v. State, 744 S.W.2d 96 (Tex. Crim. App. 1988). Under the circumstances, we lack jurisdiction to dispose of the purported appeal in any manner other than by dismissing it for want of jurisdiction. Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 523 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996).

The appeal is dismissed.

Before Justices Powers, Jones and B. A. Smith

Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction

Filed: August 28, 1996

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