Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2019-10-30 22:15:27.219146+00
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In The

                              Court of Appeals

                   Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                             NO. 09-19-00365-CR
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                  IN RE WILLIAM CURTIS JONES
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                          Original Proceeding
            252nd District Court of Jefferson County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No. 15-23712
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

      William Curtis Jones filed a petition for habeas corpus in this court

challenging his conviction for misappropriating fiduciary property, a felony. 1

      The intermediate courts of appeal do not have jurisdiction over post-

conviction writs of habeas corpus for a petition that challenges the applicant’s

conviction of a felony. 2 The judgment in Trial Court Cause Number 15-23712

      1
         Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 32.45(c)(7) (Supp.); Jones v. State, No. 09-18-
00071-CR, 2019 WL 3308958, at *1 (Tex. App.—Beaumont July 24, 2019, pet.
filed) (mem. op., not designated for publication).

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reflects Jones was convicted of a felony. We dismiss Jones’s petition for want of

jurisdiction.

      PETITION DISMISSED.

                                                   PER CURIAM

Submitted on October 29, 2019
Opinion Delivered October 30, 2019
Do Not Publish

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.

      2
        See Board of Pardons & Paroles ex rel. Keene v. Court of Appeals for Eighth
Dist., 910 S.W.2d 481, 483 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995) (holding that “jurisdiction to
grant post-conviction habeas corpus relief on a final felony conviction rests
exclusively with the Court of Criminal Appeals”) (cleaned up); see also Tex. Code
Crim. Proc. Ann. arts. 11.05, 11.07, § 3; Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.221(d) (Supp.).
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