Order entered May 20, 2015
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-15-00454-CR
EX PARTE WILLIAM THOMAS NICHOLAS, JR.
On Appeal from the County Criminal Court No. 10
Dallas County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. MC15-A0588-L
ORDER
On April 23, 2015, this Court ordered the trial court to prepare and file with the Dallas
County Clerk a certification of appellant’s right to appeal. We ordered the Dallas County Clerk
to file, within fifteen days, a clerk’s record that contains the certification and the trial court’s
written order ruling on appellant’s application for writ of habeas corpus. The clerk’s record filed
on April 24, 2015 does not contain either the certification of appellant’s right to appeal or the
trial court’s written order ruling on the application for writ of habeas corpus, and, to date, we
have not otherwise received them.
Accordingly, we ORDER the trial court to prepare and file, by JUNE 1, 2015, a written
order ruling on appellant’s application for writ of habeas corpus and a certification of appellant’s
right to appeal. We ORDER the Dallas County Clerk to transmit to this Court a supplemental
clerk’s record containing the trial court’s order and certification of appellant’s right to appeal by
JUNE 1, 2015.
We ORDER the Dallas County Clerk to send a paper copy of the clerk’s record filed on
April 24, 2015 and a copy of the supplemental clerk’s record that is due in this Court by June 1,
2015 to William Thomas Nicholas, Jr., TDCJ No. 1680033, Clements Unit, 9601 Spur 591,
Amarillo, Texas 79107-9606.
We GRANT appellant’s May 18, 2015 motion to extend time to file his brief to the
extent that we ORDER appellant’s brief to be filed by JUNE 15, 2015. The State’s brief shall
be due by JUNE 30, 2015. In the briefs, the parties shall address our jurisdiction over the
appeal, as well as any other issues related to the merits of appellant’s claims regarding the trial
court’s ruling on the application for writ of habeas corpus. No further extensions will be granted.
If any party does not file its brief by the date specified, the appeal will be submitted without that
party’s brief. See TEX. R. APP. P. 31.1.
The appeal remains set for submission, without argument, on July 3, 2015. See TEX. R.
APP. P. 31.2.
We DIRECT the Clerk to send copies of this order to the Honorable Roberto Canas,
Presiding Judge, County Criminal Court No. 10; John Warren, Dallas County Clerk; William
Thomas Nicholas, Jr.; and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.
/s/ ADA BROWN
JUSTICE
William Thomas Nicholas Jr v. State
Combined Opinion