Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-03-09 09:09:50.114756+00
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In The
                              Court of Appeals
                     Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                    No. 07-23-00071-CR

                          EX PARTE ROY CLEMON TUNIS III

   ORIGINAL PROCEEDING ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

                                     March 2, 2023
                            MEMORANDUM OPINION
                 Before QUINN, C.J., and PARKER and YARBROUGH, JJ.

       Roy Clemon Tunis III, proceeding pro se, has filed documents with this Court

seeking release from pretrial confinement in his pending criminal case. We construe the

documents as an application for writ of habeas corpus. However, intermediate courts of

appeals do not have original habeas corpus jurisdiction in criminal law matters. See TEX.

GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.221(d) (limiting original habeas jurisdiction of intermediate

appellate courts to civil cases); Ex parte Hawkins, 885 S.W.2d 586, 588-89 (Tex. App.—

El Paso 1994, orig. proceeding) (per curiam). That jurisdiction instead rests with the Court

of Criminal Appeals, the district courts, and the county courts. See TEX. CODE CRIM.

PROC. ANN. art. 11.05, 11.08, 11.09; Ex parte Hawkins, 885 S.W.2d at 588.
       Accordingly, we dismiss Tunis’s application for writ of habeas corpus for want of

jurisdiction.

                                               Per Curiam

Do not publish.

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