Floyd Pleasant Tarvin IV v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-11-00350-CV Floyd Pleasant Tarvin IV, Appellant v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 250TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. D-1-GN-09-002351, HONORABLE JOHN K. DIETZ, JUDGE PRESIDING M E M O R A N D U M O P I N I O N On September 30, 2010, the trial court signed an order dismissing appellant's case, among many others, for want of prosecution. However, appellant did not file his notice of appeal until June 23, 2011. Although appellant has informed us that he had filed a motion to retain the cause before the dismissal order was signed and that he filed a motion to reinstate the cause after its dismissal, because the notice of appeal was filed outside the possible deadlines for appeal, see Tex. R. App. P. 26.1, we cannot exercise jurisdiction over the cause, see Texas Emp'rs Ins. Ass'n v. Martin, 347 S.W.2d 916, 917 (Tex. 1961) (because appeal was not perfected within thirty days of judgment, court of appeals "did not acquire jurisdiction"). We therefore must dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a). __________________________________________ David Puryear, Justice Before Justices Puryear, Rose and Goodwin Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction Filed: December 30, 2011