IN THE
TENTH COURT OF APPEALS
No. 10-17-00068-CV
ELVIS WAYNE JONES,
Appellant
v.
CAPTAIN T. STERNS, CAPTAIN Y. TAREZ,
CAPTAIN BOLTON, CAPTAIN NEWMAN,
AND CAPTAIN S. STRINGER,
Appellees
From
Polk County, Texas
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Elvis Wayne Jones, a prison inmate, attempts to appeal from a final judgment
issued by a federal court in Texas.1 We do not have jurisdiction over federal courts. See
TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. §§ 22.201(k); 22.220 (West 2004).2 Accordingly, this appeal is
1
When we first received Jones’s notice of appeal, we did not know what he was trying to appeal. We asked
him to explain why we had jurisdiction of the appeal or it would be dismissed. In response, Jones sent us
a copy of a final judgment of the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Galveston
Division.
2
This Court has appellate jurisdiction of all civil cases within its district of which the State district courts
or county courts have jurisdiction. Our district is comprised of the counties of Bosque, Burleson, Brazos,
dismissed.
TOM GRAY
Chief Justice
Before Chief Justice Gray,
Justice Davis, and
Justice Scoggins
Appeal dismissed
Opinion delivered and filed April 19, 2017
[CV06]
Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton, Hill, Johnson, Leon, Limestone, Madison, McLennan, Navarro,
Robertson, Somervell, and Walker.
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