NO. 07-06-0438-CV
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
AT AMARILLO
PANEL C
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
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IN RE MICHAEL LOU GARRETT, RELATOR
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Before QUINN, C.J., and HANCOCK AND PIRTLE, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Relator, Michael Lou Garrett, has filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus requesting
this court order respondents, “Debbie Liles, Kelli Ward, Jamie L. Baker and their agents[,]
E.C. Williams (Warden, Allred Unit)[,] and F.L. Haynes (Access to Courts
Coordinator/Indigent Supplies Supervisor, Allred Unit)[,] to immediately refrain from
depriving relator, an indigent prisoner, of indigent supplies needed and necessary for
processing the matter of this appeal.” We dismiss for want of jurisdiction.
A court of appeals has authority to issue writs of mandamus against district and
county court judges within the court of appeals’s district and all writs necessary to enforce
its jurisdiction. TEX . GOV’T CODE ANN . § 22.221(a), (b) (Vernon 2004). As none of the
named respondents are identified as judges, they are not within our jurisdictional reach and
we have no authority to issue a writ of mandamus against the respondents absent a
showing that issuance of the writ is necessary to enforce our jurisdiction. In re Cummins,
2004 WL 1948048, at *1 (Tex.App.–Amarillo 2004, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.); In re
Coronado, 980 S.W.2d 691, 692 (Tex.App.–San Antonio 1998, orig. proceeding). While
relator concludes that mandamus relief is necessary to enforce this court’s jurisdiction, he
fails to show how the writ is necessary to the exercise of our jurisdiction over the underlying
appeal. Consequently, we have no authority to grant relator the relief he requests.
Accordingly, the petition for writ of mandamus is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
Mackey K. Hancock
Justice
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