Elvis Wayne Jones v. Captain T. Sterns, Captain Y. Tarez, Captain Bolton, Captain Newman, and Captain S. Stringer

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: April 19, 2017
• Docket: 10-17-00068-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

No. 10-17-00068-CV

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.1 We do not have jurisdiction over federal courts. See

TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN. §§ 22.201(k); 22.220 (West 2004).2 Accordingly, this appeal is

1 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.

2 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, dismissed.

TOM GRAY Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Gray, Justice Davis, and Justice Scoggins Appeal dismissed Opinion delivered and filed April 19, 2017 [CV06]

Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton, Hill, Johnson, Leon, Limestone, Madison, McLennan, Navarro, Robertson, Somervell, and Walker.

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