In The
Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana
No. 06-19-00156-CR
IN RE RAYMOND GILBERT
Original Mandamus Proceeding
Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ.
Memorandum Opinion by Justice Burgess
MEMORANDUM OPINION
For the second time in a matter of months, Raymond Gilbert has petitioned this Court for
mandamus relief. Gilbert would have us compel the trial court, the Honorable R. Scott McKee of
the 392nd Judicial District Court of Henderson County, to rule on motions Gilbert claims to have
filed. We will dismiss Gilbert’s petition.
Section 22.221 of the Texas Government Code provides, “Each court of appeals for a court
of appeals district may issue all writs of mandamus, agreeable to the principles of law regulating
those writs, against: (1) a judge of a district, statutory county, statutory probate county, or county
court in the court of appeals district.” See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.221(b)(1) (Supp.). As we
noted in our previous opinion denying mandamus relief, the 392nd Judicial District Court of
Henderson County is not located within our district. TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.201(g) (Supp.).
It is located within the district of the Tyler Court of Appeals. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN.
§ 22.201(m) (Supp.). Although Gilbert’s underlying criminal appeal was transferred to this Court
pursuant to the Texas Supreme Court’s docket equalization order, such transfer does not confer
jurisdiction on this Court in a separate original proceeding. See In re Davis, 87 S.W.3d 794, 795
(Tex. App.—Texarkana 2002, orig. proceeding).
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We, therefore, dismiss the petition for writ of mandamus for want of jurisdiction.
Ralph K. Burgess
Justice
Date Submitted: July 25, 2019
Date Decided: July 26, 2019
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