TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-16-00481-CV
In re Herman Lee Kindred
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING FROM BELL COUNTY
MEMORANDUM OPINION
On June 23, 2016, relator Herman Lee Kindred, an inmate proceeding pro se, filed
a petition for writ of mandamus, which this Court denied.1 In the petition, Kindred had asserted that
the County Court at Law No. 2 of Bell County had failed to rule on and forward to this Court an
application for writ of habeas corpus that Kindred claimed to have filed in the court below. This
Court concluded that Kindred had failed to show himself entitled to the extraordinary relief
requested.2
Kindred has now filed another petition for writ of mandamus, re-urging the same
contentions that he made in his earlier petition. Kindred has again failed to demonstrate that he is
entitled to mandamus relief. Accordingly, for the reasons explained in our previous opinion and
1
See In re Kindred, No. 03-16-00423-CV, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 7099, at *3
(Tex. App.—Austin July 7, 2016, orig. proceeding).
2
See id. at *1-3.
other opinions rejecting similar claims made by Kindred, we deny the petition for writ of
mandamus.3
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Bob Pemberton, Justice
Before Justices Puryear, Pemberton, and Field
Filed: July 26, 2016
3
See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(a); Kindred, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 7099, at *1-3; see also
Kindred v. State, No. 03-16-00163-CR, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 3399 , at *1-2 (Tex. App.—Austin
Apr. 1, 2016, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication); Kindred v. State,
No. 10-16-00020-CR, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 946, at *1-2 (Tex. App.—Waco Jan. 28, 2016, no pet.)
(mem. op., not designated for publication).
2