Opinion
05-21-01061-CV
06-14-2022
JOHNATHAN COOPER, Appellant v. MICHAEL MOWLA, Appellee
On Appeal from the 192nd Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. DC-20-17693
ORDER
ROBERT D. BURNS, III CHIEF JUSTICE
Before the Court is appellant's motion to appoint counsel. The motion, mailed June 3, 2022 and filed June 9, 2022, was prompted, in part, on the trial court clerk informing the Court that a document appellant requested be included in a supplemental clerk's record-appellant's "Motion to Rule Unconstitutional Rule 91a pf Tex. R. Civ. Proc."-could not be located. Appellant asserts the clerk is "secreting documents" and that counsel would be able to prevent the clerk's "shady" and "questionable" tactics. As authority in support of appointment of counsel at the appellate level, appellant cites in part, to Texas Government Code section 24.016, Ex parte Pointer, 492 S.W.3d 318 (Tex. Crim. App. 2016, order) (per curiam), and Ard v. State, 191 S.W.3d 342 (Tex. App.-Waco 2006, pet. ref'd).
We do not appoint counsel. Accordingly, we DENY the motion. In so doing, we note the document appellant requested be included in the supplemental record has been located, and a supplemental record containing the document was filed June 3, the same day as the motion. We also note that section 24.06 of the government code concerns district courts, see Tex. Gov't Code Ann. § 24.016, and the two cases upon which appellant relies are inapplicable criminal cases.
A paper copy of the supplemental record was mailed to appellant June 6, 2022.