in Re Amerisure Insurance Company

In re Amerisure Insurance Company

 

 

IN THE

TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

No. 10-00-354-CV

IN RE AMERISURE INSURANCE COMPANY

Original Proceeding

                                                                                                                

O P I N I O N

                                                                                                                

      Amerisure Insurance Company petitions this Court to issue a writ of mandamus against Respondent, the Honorable Ralph Strother, Judge of the 19th District Court of McLennan County. However, the mandamus record provided by Amerisure reflects that the Honorable Bill Logue presided over the hearing in which Amerisure sought to compel the real party in interest to submit to a medical examination under Rule of Civil Procedure 204. Judge Logue signed the order denying Amerisure’s motion. Amerisure has failed to name the proper respondent. We deny the petition. See Jampole v. Touchy, 673 S.W.2d 569, 572 (Tex. 1984) (orig. proceeding); Gaal v. Townsend, 77 Tex. 464, 465, 14 S.W. 365, 365 (1890); Pelt v. Johnson, 818 S.W.2d 212, 215 (Tex. App.—Waco 1991, orig. proceeding); City of Beaumont v. Stephenson, 95 S.W.2d 1360, 1364-65 (Tex. Civ. App.—Beaumont 1936, writ dism’d); Tex. R. App. P. 52.2.

                                                                   PER CURIAM

Before Chief Justice Davis,

      Justice Vance, and

      Justice Gray

Writ denied

Opinion delivered and filed November 1, 2000

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[1]   This court has jurisdiction over criminal appeals only when expressly granted by law.  See Everett v. State, 91 S.W.3d 386, 386 (Tex. App.—Waco 2002, no pet.).  An intermediate court of appeals has no jurisdiction over postconviction writs of habeas corpus in felony cases.  See Ex parte Martinez, 175 S.W.3d 510, 512-13 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2005, orig. proceeding) (citing Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 11.07(3)(a), (b) (Vernon 2005)); Self v. State, 122 S.W.3d 294, 294-95 (Tex. App.—Eastland 2003, no pet.) (same).  The Court of Criminal Appeals and lower courts have recognized that “the exclusive post-conviction remedy in final felony convictions in Texas courts is through a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to [article] 11. 07.”  Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 525 n.8 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996); see Ex parte Mendenhall, 209 S.W.3d 260, 261 (Tex. App.—Waco 2006, no pet.).