Continental Heritage Insurance Company, Agent Pat Kinnard, D/B/A Pat Kinnard Bail Bonds v. State

Opinion

Order entered April 20, 2021

In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas

No. 05-20-00928-CV No. 05-20-00929-CV No. 05-20-00930-CV

CONTINENTAL HERITAGE INSURANCE COMPANY, AGENT PAT KINNARD D/B/A PAT KINNARD BAIL BONDS, Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 2 Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. F17-59990, F17-59991, and F17-59992

ORDER Before Chief Justice Burns, Justice Goldstein, and Justice Smith

Appellant filed supplemental motions to correct ordered costs in these cases.

Appellee filed responses to the motions that included pleas to the jurisdiction. The

clerk’s records include the trial court’s findings of fact that it lacks jurisdiction to

rule on the motions. The trial court, however, did not sign orders pursuant to its

findings. Accordingly, on the Court’s own motion, we ABATE these appeals to allow

the trial court to perform its ministerial duty of signing orders in accordance with

its rulings. We ORDER Dallas County District Clerk Felicia Pitre to file, within

twenty-five days of the date of this order, supplemental clerk’s records in each

appeal containing the trial court’s signed order.

We SUSPEND the current deadline for appellee’s brief on the merits in

these appeals. The Court will set a new deadline for appellee’s briefs once the

supplemental clerk’s records are filed and reviewed.

We will reinstate these appeals within twenty-five days of the date of this

order.

We DIRECT the Clerk of this Court to send a copy of this order to The

Honorable Nancy Kennedy, Presiding Judge of Criminal District Court No. 2; Ms.

Pitre; and, all parties.

/s/ ROBERT D. BURNS, III CHIEF JUSTICE