Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-09-17 03:53:46.051938+00
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                          NO. 03-15-00182-CV

                                     In re Robert Samaniego

                       ORIGINAL PROCEEDING FROM HAYS COUNTY

                             MEMORANDUM OPINION

                Relator Robert Samaniego, an inmate proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for

writ of mandamus, asking this Court to direct the Hays County district clerk and a deputy clerk to

file certain documents relating to Samaniego’s previously filed application for writ of habeas corpus,

which the Court of Criminal Appeals denied in 2012.1 A court of appeals has no jurisdiction to issue

a writ of mandamus against a district clerk’s office unless necessary to enforce its jurisdiction, and

our jurisdiction is not implicated here.2 Accordingly, the petition for writ of mandamus is denied.3

                                               __________________________________________

                                               Bob Pemberton, Justice

Before Justices Puryear, Pemberton, and Bourland

Filed: May 8, 2015

       1
        See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 11.07; Ex parte Samaniego, No. WR-76,378-01,
2012 Tex. Crim. App. Unpub. LEXIS 8 (Tex. Crim. App. Jan. 11, 2012) (per curiam order).
       2
         See Tex. Gov’t Code § 22.221(a); In re Washington, 7 S.W.3d 181, 182
(Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1999, orig. proceeding).
       3
           See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(a).