Order entered April 20, 2021
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-20-00928-CV
No. 05-20-00929-CV
No. 05-20-00930-CV
CONTINENTAL HERITAGE INSURANCE COMPANY,
AGENT PAT KINNARD D/B/A PAT KINNARD BAIL BONDS, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 2
Dallas County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. F17-59990, F17-59991, and F17-59992
ORDER
Before Chief Justice Burns, Justice Goldstein, and Justice Smith
Appellant filed supplemental motions to correct ordered costs in these cases.
Appellee filed responses to the motions that included pleas to the jurisdiction. The
clerk’s records include the trial court’s findings of fact that it lacks jurisdiction to
rule on the motions. The trial court, however, did not sign orders pursuant to its
findings.
Accordingly, on the Court’s own motion, we ABATE these appeals to allow
the trial court to perform its ministerial duty of signing orders in accordance with
its rulings. We ORDER Dallas County District Clerk Felicia Pitre to file, within
twenty-five days of the date of this order, supplemental clerk’s records in each
appeal containing the trial court’s signed order.
We SUSPEND the current deadline for appellee’s brief on the merits in
these appeals. The Court will set a new deadline for appellee’s briefs once the
supplemental clerk’s records are filed and reviewed.
We will reinstate these appeals within twenty-five days of the date of this
order.
We DIRECT the Clerk of this Court to send a copy of this order to The
Honorable Nancy Kennedy, Presiding Judge of Criminal District Court No. 2; Ms.
Pitre; and, all parties.
/s/ ROBERT D. BURNS, III
CHIEF JUSTICE