Opinion
NO. 03-11-00687-CV
07-17-2012
In re Mark David Simmons
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING FROM HAYS COUNTY
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Relator has filed numerous documents complaining about unspecified pretrial rulings in his criminal case and the trial court clerk's refusal to provide him with his case file. We docketed these filings as seeking mandamus relief because they did not seek to appeal from a final, appealable order. See State v. Sellers, 790 S.W.2d 316, 321 n.4 (Tex. Crim. App. 1990) ("A defendant's general right to appeal . . . has always been limited to appeal from a 'final judgment'"); Ex parte Gasperson, No. 06-08-00113-CR, 2008 Tex. App. LEXIS 9114, at *3 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2008, no pet.) (mem. op.) (courts of appeals are "not authorized to entertain appeals from interlocutory orders unless expressly permitted by statute"). We have since learned that relator has been convicted and has appealed from his convictions. We therefore dismiss relator's mandamus proceeding as moot because complaints related to pretrial rulings or conduct may be raised in his appeals. To the extent relator's filings can be read as raising other complaints, we deny the petition for writ of mandamus.
Some of the filings seem to complain about the treatment relator and other inmates received while in custody, but relator has not shown himself entitled to mandamus relief related to such allegations.
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David Puryear, Justice
Before Justices Puryear, Pemberton and Henson