in Re: Tommy Edward Sanders ( 2007 )

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed April 26, 2007

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed April 26, 2007.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-07-00310-CV

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IN RE TOMMY EDWARD SANDERS,

 Relator

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

On April 16, 2007, relator Tommy Edward Sanders, an inmate in the Mark W. Michael Unit, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, located in Anderson County, filed in this court an AApplication for Writ of Habeas Corpus Seeking Relief from a Void Juvenile Proceeding,@ seeking an order vacating a hearing^[1] conducted in the 313th District Court, Harris County, Texas, in October of 1979.

We do not have jurisdiction to grant relator the relief he seeks.  See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. arts. 11.05, 11.07 (Vernon 2005); see also Tex. Gov=t Code Ann. ' 22.221(d).  Accordingly, we dismiss his petition for writ of habeas corpus for lack of jurisdiction. 

PER CURIAM

Petition Denied and Memorandum Opinion filed April 26, 2007.

Panel consists of Justices Yates, Edelman, and Seymore.  

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^[1]See Sanders v. State, 194 S.W.3d 7, 12B14 (Tex. App.CWaco 2006, dism=d w.o.j.) (Gray, C.J., dissenting) (attaching as appendices, a copy of the Waco appeals court=s opinion, dated May 13, 1982, rendered in relator=s appeal; the Waco court concluded that the Ajuvenile proceeding@ was a transfer hearing under Section 54.02 of the Texas Family Code).