Opinion ID: 2449308
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Heading: mandamus directed to court reporter

Text: The constitutional authority of this Court to issue Writs of Mandamus is Tex.Const. art. V, § 3 which provides, The Legislature may confer original jurisdiction on the Supreme Court to issue writs of quo warranto and mandamus in such cases as may be specified .... Pursuant to that constitutional authority the Legislature enacted Article 1733, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. (1962), which provides, The Supreme Court or any Justice thereof, shall have power to issue writs of precedendo, certiorari and all writs of quo warranto or mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating such writs, against any district judge, or Court of Appeals or judges thereof, or any officer of the State Government except the Governor. The Supreme Court does not have original jurisdiction to issue a Writ of Mandamus against a county officer or district officer, other than a district judge. Travis County v. Jourdan, 91 Tex. 217, 42 S.W. 543 (1897); Cocke v. Smith, 142 Tex. 396, 179 S.W.2d 958 (1944). The official court reporter of a district court is a district officer not subject to mandamus power of this Court.