Court Opinion

ID: 4388636
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Date Created: 2019-04-18 15:50:58.314407+00
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In The

                                Court of Appeals

                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-19-00108-CV
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                           IN RE ANDREW WELLER

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                             Original Proceeding
              Criminal District Court of Jefferson County, Texas
                     Trial Cause Nos. 49280 and 49361
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Andrew Weller filed an original petition for a writ of habeas corpus with this

Court. Weller is being held in Rusk State Hospital after having been found not guilty

by reason of insanity in 1988. See Weller v. State, No. 09-14-00292-CV, 2015 WL
1612011, at *1–2 (Tex. App.—Beaumont Apr. 9, 2015, pet. denied) (mem. op.). Our

jurisdiction to issue a writ of habeas corpus may be invoked if a person is restrained

in his liberty, “by virtue of an order, process, or commitment issued by a court or

judge because of the violation of an order, judgment, or decree previously made,
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rendered, or entered by the court or judge in a civil case.” Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. §

22.221(d) (West Supp. 2018). We lack original habeas jurisdiction to consider an

order that does not involve a contemnor’s violation of a previous court order. Id.

Weller’s petition fails to invoke a matter over which we have original habeas

jurisdiction. We dismiss the petition without prejudice and without reference to the

merits.

      PETITION DISMISSED.
                                                                PER CURIAM

Submitted on April 17, 2019
Opinion Delivered April 18, 2019

Before McKeithen, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.

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