Opinion
No. 10-17-00068-CV
04-19-2017
ELVIS WAYNE JONES, Appellant v. CAPTAIN T. STERNS, CAPTAIN Y. TAREZ, CAPTAIN BOLTON, CAPTAIN NEWMAN, AND CAPTAIN S. STRINGER, Appellees
From Polk County, Texas
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Elvis Wayne Jones, a prison inmate, attempts to appeal from a final judgment issued by a federal court in Texas. We do not have jurisdiction over federal courts. See TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. §§ 22.201(k); 22.220 (West 2004). Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed.
When we first received Jones's notice of appeal, we did not know what he was trying to appeal. We asked him to explain why we had jurisdiction of the appeal or it would be dismissed. In response, Jones sent us a copy of a final judgment of the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division.
This Court has appellate jurisdiction of all civil cases within its district of which the State district courts or county courts have jurisdiction. Our district is comprised of the counties of Bosque, Burleson, Brazos, Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton, Hill, Johnson, Leon, Limestone, Madison, McLennan, Navarro, Robertson, Somervell, and Walker.
TOM GRAY
Chief Justice Before Chief Justice Gray, Justice Davis, and Justice Scoggins
Appeal dismissed
Opinion delivered and filed April 19, 2017
[CV06]