Court Opinion

ID: 4261830
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-04-06 06:49:20.629077+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:29:58.749497
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                            ____________________
                               NO. 09-18-00025-CV
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                         DEL RAY SANDERS, Appellant

                                          V.

                          DISTRICT CLERK, Appellee
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                    On Appeal from the 258th District Court
                             Polk County, Texas
                         Trial Cause No. CIV31476
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Del Ray Sanders, Appellant, petitioned the trial court for a writ of mandamus

to “issue service of process” of what Sanders referenced as a “Truth Affidavit in

accord [sic] [with] the law governing redress before suit” upon three individuals.

The trial court denied the petition. Appellant filed a notice of appeal.

      Upon receiving the notice of appeal, we provided the Appellant with a cost

bill and a standard form for a statement of inability to pay costs. See Tex. R. App. P.

5, 20.1. We then received an unsworn declaration of inability to pay costs from

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Appellant. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1(c). On February 9, 2018, we notified Appellant

that as an inmate requesting to proceed without prepayment of cost, he must submit

a current inmate’s account statement and a declaration of previous filings. See Tex.

Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. §§ 14.002, 14.004, 14.006(f) (West 2017). Appellant

failed to timely file an inmate’s account statement and a declaration of previous

filings within the time required by the notice. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(c).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                              ________________________________
                                                      LEANNE JOHNSON
                                                            Justice

Submitted on April 4, 2018
Opinion Delivered April 5, 2018

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.

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