Case Name: Ex parte Michael Lee LOCKHART
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1993-11-22
Citations: 868 S.W.2d 346
Docket Number: No. 25669-01
Parties: Ex parte Michael Lee LOCKHART.
Judges: OVERSTREET, J., dissents.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 868
Pages: 346–351

Head Matter:
Ex parte Michael Lee LOCKHART.
No. 25669-01.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.
Nov. 22, 1993.
Mandy Welch, Houston, for appellant.
Robert Huttash, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
This Court affirmed applicant's capital murder conviction and sentence of death on direct appeal. Lockhart v. State, 847 S.W.2d 568 (Tex.Cr.App.1992). The trial court has scheduled applicant's execution to be carried out on or before sunrise, November 23, 1993.
By the instant motion, applicant seeks a stay of execution in order to allow time for the Texas Resource Center to recruit an attorney to represent him and prepare a post conviction application for writ of habeas corpus under Art. 11.07, V.A.C.C.P.
Applicant first presented his motion for a stay of execution to the convicting court. The trial court denied the relief requested after noting no colorable claim for habeas corpus relief is set forth in the motion and no effort has heen made to invoke the trial court's jurisdiction. See Tex.RApp.Pro. Rule 233.
We find we do not have jurisdiction to grant the relief requested by applicant. The granting of such relief would in no manner tend to protect this Court's jurisdiction or enforce a judgment of this Court. See Tex. Const., Art. V, Sec. 5. Therefore, the relief sought is denied.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
OVERSTREET, J., dissents.