TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-02-00062-CR

Michael Anthony Sanchez, Appellant v. The State of Texas, Appellee

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 390TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. 006317, HONORABLE JULIE H. KOCUREK, JUDGE PRESIDING

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for capital murder. Sentence was imposed on December 6, 2001. There was no motion for new trial. The deadline for perfecting appeal was therefore January 7, 2002. Tex. R. App. P. 4.1(a), 26.2(a)(1). Notice of appeal was filed on January 11. No extension of time for filing notice of appeal was requested. Tex. R. App. P. 26.3.

There is no indication that notice of appeal was properly mailed to the district clerk within the time prescribed by rule 26.2(a). Tex. R. App. P. 9.2(b). Under the circumstances, we lack jurisdiction to dispose of the purported appeal in any manner other than by dismissing it for want of jurisdiction.

See Slaton v. State, 981 S.W.2d 208 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998); Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522-23 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996).

The appeal is dismissed.

Bea Ann Smith, Justice Before Chief Justice Aboussie, Justices B. A. Smith and Yeakel Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction Filed: February 14, 2002 Do Not Publish