Title: Matter of Wilson
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 204, 2007
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: July 20, 2007

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION 
§ 
OF JAMES A. WILSON  
 
 
§   No. 204, 2007 
FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS 
 
§ 
 
Submitted: May 14, 2007 
  Decided: July 20, 2007 
 
Before BERGER, JACOBS, and RIDGELY Justices. 
 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 20th day of July 2007, upon consideration of James Wilson’s 
petition for a writ of mandamus and the State=s answer and motion to dismiss, it 
appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
Wilson filed a petition requesting this Court to issue an 
extraordinary writ of mandamus directed to the Warden of the Delaware 
Correctional Center.  Wilson asks that the Warden be directed to credit him 
with time that Wilson claims to have served on his sentence.   
(2) 
This Court’s original jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus is 
limited to instances “when the respondent is a court or a judge thereof.”1  This 
Court has no jurisdiction to issue an extraordinary writ to a nonjudicial public 
official such as the Warden of the Delaware Correctional Center.  Accordingly, 
Wilson’s petition must be dismissed. 
                                                           
1 In re Hitchens, 600 A.2d 37, 38 (Del. 1991) (citing Del. Const. art. IV, § 11(6)). 
 
 
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the petition for a writ of 
mandamus is DISMISSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
/s/ Jack B. Jacobs 
Justice