In re Garland Wayne Scroggins Appeal from 331st District Court of Travis County (memorandum opinion)

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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-17-00829-CV In re Garland Wayne Scroggins ORIGINAL PROCEEDING FROM TRAVIS COUNTY MEMORANDUM OPINION Garland Wayne Scroggins filed a petition for writ of mandamus. The substance of his filing seeks post-conviction habeas-corpus relief and his immediate release from prison. See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 11.07; Scroggins v. State, No. 03-02-00053-CR, 2002 Tex. App. LEXIS 8546 (Tex. App.—Austin Dec. 5, 2002, pet. ref’d) (affirming Scroggins’s felony conviction). However, this Court has no jurisdiction to grant such relief here. See Ex parte Alexander, 685 S.W.2d 57, 60 (Tex. Crim. App. 1985) (“It is well established that only the Court of Criminal Appeals possesses the authority to grant relief in a post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding where there is a final felony conviction.”); In re Farrow, No. 03-16-00354-CV, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 6298, at *1-2 (Tex. App.—Austin June 15, 2016, orig. proceeding). Accordingly, we dismiss Scroggins’s petition for want of jurisdiction. Jeff Rose, Chief Justice Before Chief Justice Rose, Justices Pemberton and Goodwin Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction Filed: December 19, 2017

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