in Re Wayne Ernest Barker, Relator ( 2009 )

NO. 07-09-0124-CV
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
AT AMARILLO
PANEL A
APRIL 28, 2009
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IN RE WAYNE ERNEST BARKER, RELATOR
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Before CAMPBELL and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Relator, Wayne Ernest Barker, has filed an application for writ of mandamus in
which Barker requests this Court issue the writ to compel respondent, Barbara Sucsy,
Lubbock County District Clerk, to file an application for writ of habeas corpus that Barker
has previously sent her. Alternatively, Barker requests that this Court remove Sucsy from
her office as Lubbock County District Clerk. We deny the petition.
Barker’s application fails to establish his entitlement to mandamus relief. A court
of appeals has authority to issue writs of mandamus against district and county court
judges within the court of appeals’s district and all writs necessary to enforce its jurisdiction.
TEX . GOV’T CODE ANN . § 22.221(a), (b) (Vernon 2004). However, Sucsy is not a judge. As
a result, Sucsy is not within our jurisdictional reach and we have no authority to issue a writ
of mandamus against her absent a showing that issuance of the writ is necessary to
enforce our jurisdiction. In re Felder, No. 07-07-0111-CV, 2007 Tex.App. LEXIS 2782, at
*2 (Tex.App.–Amarillo April 11, 2007, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.); In re Cummins, No. 07-
04-0354-CV, 2004 Tex.App. LEXIS 8107, at *2 (Tex.App.–Amarillo September 2, 2004,
orig. proceeding) (mem. op.); In re Coronado, 980 S.W.2d 691, 692 (Tex.App.–San
Antonio 1998, orig. proceeding). Barker does not identify how issuance of the writ of
mandamus against Sucsy would be necessary to enforce our jurisdiction.
As Barker’s application for Writ of Mandamus does not identify any basis upon
which this court would have authority to issue a writ of mandamus, we deny the petition.
Mackey K. Hancock
Justice
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