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IN THE
TENTH COURT OF APPEALS
 

 
 

No. 10-06-00416-CR
 
In re
Ivan C. Frazier
 
 

Original Proceeding
 
 

MEMORANDUM  Opinion

 

          Ivan C. Frazier seeks a writ of
mandamus compelling the judge of the County Criminal Court No. 1 of Dallas County to rule on his habeas application or forward it to the Court of Criminal Appeals.[1]  However, Dallas County lies within the
geographic boundaries of the Fifth Court of Appeals District rather than the
Tenth Court of Appeals District.  See Tex.
Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.201(f), (k) (Vernon Supp. 2006).  This Court’s mandamus
jurisdiction only reaches judges within this Court’s geographic boundaries,
except where “necessary to enforce the jurisdiction of the court.”  Id. § 22.221(a), (b) (Vernon 2004); see In re Johnson, 135 S.W.3d 764, 764
(Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2004, orig. proceeding) (per curiam).
          Respondent is not a judge within this
Court’s geographic boundaries.  The relief sought by Frazier is not “necessary to
enforce the jurisdiction” of this Court.  Accordingly, we dismiss the petition
for want of jurisdiction without prejudice.  See Johnson, 135 S.W.3d at
764.
PER CURIAM
 
Before Chief Justice
Gray,
Justice
Vance, and
Justice
Reyna
Petition dismissed
Opinion delivered and
filed January 17, 2007
Do not publish
[OT06]
 

[1]
          This Court affirmed Frazier’s Ellis County conviction for state-jail felony theft in an unpublished decision.  See
Frazier v. State, No. 10-99-00243-CR (Tex. App.—Waco Dec. 20, 2000, pet.
dism’d, untimely filed).  Frazier’s habeas application is an effort to have two
  Dallas County misdemeanor theft convictions which supported that conviction
declared void.