in Re Wesley Wellington White ( 2018 )

Opinion issued August 31, 2018
In The
Court of Appeals
For The
First District of Texas
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NO. 01-18-00685-CR
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IN RE WESLEY W. WHITE, Relator
Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Relator, Wesley W. White, incarcerated and proceeding pro se, has filed a
petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel the respondent district judge to
rule on his “Discovery Motion” seeking a copy of his trial records in the underlying
criminal proceeding to use for a future post-conviction habeas corpus application.1
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The underlying case is The State of Texas v. Wesley W. White, Cause No. 749118,
the 337th District Court, Harris County, Texas, the Honorable Herb Ritchie
presiding. In 2008, this Court dismissed for want of jurisdiction relator’s pro se
appeal of the trial court’s denial of his motion seeking a free copy of the trial records
under the same trial court cause number 749118. See Wesley Wellington White v.
We deny the petition for writ of mandamus.2 See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(a), (d).
PER CURIAM
Panel consists of Justices Keyes, Bland, and Lloyd.
Do not publish. TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
State, No. 01-08-00224-CR, 2008 WL 1747164, at *1 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st
Dist.] Apr. 17, 2008, no pet.) (per curiam) (mem. op., not designated for
publication).
2
Relator may write to the Harris County District Clerk to request the cost information
for a copy of his trial records. See In re Bonilla, 424 S.W.3d 528, 532, 534 (Tex.
Crim. App. 2014) (dismissing mandamus petition as moot because, while indigent
relator was not entitled to free trial records for use in future post-conviction habeas
application, district clerk provided relator with cost information for his trial records
while petition was abated).
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