Ex parte Johnny Lee Sterling Appeal from 54th District Court of McLennan County (memorandum opinion by chief justice gray)

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IN THE TENTH COURT OF APPEALS No. 10-16-00080-CR EX PARTE JOHNNY LEE STERLING From the 54th District Court McLennan County, Texas Trial Court No. 1991-61-C MEMORANDUM OPINION Johnny Lee Sterling, a prison inmate, filed an application for writ of habeas corpus in this Court pursuant to article 11.07 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, see TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.07 (West 2015), asserting various grounds for habeas relief from his felony conviction. An application for writ of habeas corpus after a final felony conviction, other than a case in which the death penalty is imposed, must be filed with the clerk of the court in which the challenged conviction was obtained. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.07, sec. 3(b) (West 2015). Rather than filing his application with the trial court as required by the Code of Criminal Procedure, Sterling filed his application with this Court. As an intermediate court of appeals, we have no jurisdiction over postconviction writs of habeas corpus in felony cases. See id. 11.05 (West 2015); Ex parte Martinez, 175 S.W.3d 510, 512-13 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2005, orig. proceeding); Self v. State, 122 S.W.3d 294, 294-95 (Tex. App.—Eastland 2003, no pet.); see also Ex parte Beard, No. 10-15-00252-CR, 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 8522, at **1-2 (Tex. App.—Waco Aug. 13, 2015, orig. proceeding). Accordingly, because we have no jurisdiction over a post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding in a felony case, we dismiss Sterling’s application. TOM GRAY Chief Justice Before Chief Justice Gray, Justice Davis, and Justice Scoggins Dismissed Opinion delivered and filed March 24, 2016 Do not publish [OT06] Ex parte Sterling Page 2

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