Opinion issued June 26, 2014
In The
Court of Appeals
For The
First District of Texas
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NO. 01-14-00010-CR
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EX PARTE LESLIE NEAL WILEY
On Appeal from the County Criminal Court at Law No. 3
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Case No. 1929135
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Appellant, Leslie Neal Wiley, appeals the denial of his pretrial application
for writ of habeas corpus. According to his first amended application for the writ
of habeas corpus, appellant was charged with the misdemeanor offense of driving
while intoxicated and the case proceeded to trial, but the trial court granted a
motion for mistrial he filed after the jury was selected and empaneled. Appellant
sought the writ of habeas corpus to “bar the State from any re-trial [of his case] on
the grounds of double jeopardy.” The trial court denied his application for the writ
of habeas corpus on December 12, 2013. Appellant filed his notice of appeal on
December 20, 2013.
The appellate record was due in this Court on January 6, 2014. See TEX. R.
APP. P. 4.1(a), 31.1. Although the trial court clerk filed the clerk’s record on
January 3, 2014, appellant “has failed to file a reporter’s record from the hearing
on his application.” Blacklock v. State, No. 14-01-00808-CR, 2001 WL 1249680,
at *1 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Oct. 18, 2001, no pet.) (not designated for
publication).
On January 7, 2014, the court reporter notified this Court that appellant had
neither requested nor paid for the reporter’s record. See TEX. R. APP. P. 31.1
(requiring reporter to prepare and certify record if requested by appellant); see also
TEX. R. APP. P. 34.6(b)(1) (requiring appellant to request in writing that reporter
prepare record), 35.3(b) (imposing duty on court reporter to prepare, certify, and
file reporter’s record if appellant requests and pays for record), 37.3(c) (authorizing
appellate court to consider case without reporter’s record if appellant fails to
request or pay for record). On January 8, 2014, the Clerk of this Court notified
appellant that the Court might consider this appeal without a reporter’s record
unless appellant caused the record to be filed, provided proof of having made
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payment arrangements for the reporter’s record, or provided proof that he was
exempt from paying for the reporter’s record by January 21, 2014. See TEX. R.
APP. P. 37.3(c). Appellant failed to respond.
“In a habeas corpus proceeding, without a complete record, nothing is
presented for review.” Blacklock, 2001 WL 1249680, at *1; see Ex parte
Henderson, 565 S.W.2d 50, 51–52 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978) (holding that trial
court’s judgment in habeas corpus proceeding will be affirmed if appellant fails to
request or pay, if appellant is able to do so, for reporter’s record); Ex parte Sims,
565 S.W.2d 45, 49–50 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978) (“We hold . . . that in a habeas
corpus proceeding the judgment will be affirmed absent a statement of facts or bills
of exception where nothing has been presented for review.”); see also In re Mott,
137 S.W.3d 870, 875 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2004, orig. proceeding) (“In
the absence of a reporter’s record, the court considering a habeas corpus
application will presume that there was evidence to support the trial court’s
judgment of contempt.”).
Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
PER CURIAM
Panel consists of Chief Justice Radack and Justices Higley and Brown.
Do not publish. TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
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