Case Name: Dood Bostic, Relator, v. County Judge of Rockwall County
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-05-30
Citations: 108 Tex. 421
Docket Number: Motion No. 3970
Parties: Dood Bostic, Relator, v. County Judge of Rockwall County.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 421–422

Head Matter:
Dood Bostic, Relator, v. County Judge of Rockwall County.
Motion No. 3970.
Decided May 30, 1917.
Supreme Court—Jurisdiction—Mandamus—County Judge.
The Supreme Court has no original jurisdiction to issue the writ of mandamus against a county judge. He is not embraced in the classes of judges enumerated in the statute (Rev. Stats., art. 1526) against whom its writ may so issue; neither is he an “officer of the State Government” .in the sense in which the term is there used (Travis County v. Jourdan, '91 Texas, 217).
Motion by relator Bostic for leave to file petition for writ of mandamus against the county judge of Bockwall County. Similar applications to file petitions by Jesse Bostic and by Frank Bostic fell within the ruling here made, and were denied.
H. M. Wade, for relator.

Opinion:
Mr. Chief Justice PHILLIPS
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case and two companion cases are before us on motions for leave to file petitions for mandamus against the county judge of Rockwall County so as to require him to accept pleas of guilty offered by the relators, and assess the proper fine, in certain misdemeanor prosecutions pending against them in the County Court of that county.
This court has original jurisdiction in proper eases to issue a mandamus against "any district judge, or Court of Civil Appeals or judge of a Court of Civil Appeals, or officer of the State government, except the Governor." Art. 1526, Sayl,es' Civil Statutes. The enumeration in the statute of district judges and the judges of Courts of Civil Appeals as the classes of judicial officers against whom this court may issue the writ of mandamus in the exercise of original jurisdiction, excludes any power in the court to so award the writ against a county judge, unless he may be regarded as an "officer of the State government." He is not such an officer in the sense in which that term is used in the statute. Travis County v. Jourdan, 91 Texas, 217, 42 S. W., 543.
We have no jurisdiction of the proceeding, and the motion is accordingly denied.