Ex Parte: Ricardo H. Dominguez ( 2006 )

COURT OF APPEALS

COURT OF APPEALS

EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

EL PASO, TEXAS

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                                                                              )     No.  08-06-00033-CR

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                                                                              )                    Appeal from the

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EX PARTE:  RICARDO H. DOMINGUEZ          )                 168th District Court

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                                                                              )     of El Paso County, Texas

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                                                                              )     (TC# 55237-168-I)

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O P I N I O N

Appellant Ricardo Dominguez seeks to appeal the trial court=s October 31, 2005 order recommending to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that his application for an Article 11.07 writ of habeas corpus be denied.  We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

Article 11.07 establishes the procedures for a post‑conviction application for writ of habeas corpus in a non‑capital felony case.  See Tex.Code Crim.Proc.Ann. art. 11.07 (Vernon 2005). The only courts referred to in Article 11.07 are the convicting court and the court of criminal appeals.  In re McAfee, 53 S.W.3d 715, 718 (Tex.App.‑-Houston [1st Dist.] 2001, orig. proceeding); see also Tex.Code Crim.Proc.Ann. art. 11.07, ' 3.  The Article prescribes no role for the court of appeals.  See id.  This Court has no jurisdiction over post‑conviction habeas corpus proceedings under Article 11.07. See Ater v. Eighth Court of Appeals, 802 S.W.2d 241, 243 (Tex.Crim.App. 1991)(Orig. proceeding).

Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

April 13, 2006

DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Justice

Before Barajas, C.J., McClure, and Chew, JJ.

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