In Re Mark Jerome Pool v. the State of Texas

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: November 6, 2025
• Docket: 10-25-00383-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

Court of Appeals Tenth Appellate District of Texas

10-25-00383-CR

In re Mark Jerome Pool

Original Proceeding

JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the Court.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Mark Jerome Pool, proceeding pro se, filed a document claiming that he

was denied his right to an examining trial.1 Pool also claims that the Brazos

County Jail has “impeded and aided and abedded [sic]” his trust account

information and court transcripts. He requests twenty million dollars as well

as immediate release from confinement and dismissal of his pending charges.

We have construed this document as a pretrial application for writ of habeas

corpus. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.08.

1 The State filed a response to Pool’s pleading and attached a copy of Pool’s indictment, noting that the

right to an examining trial is terminated by the return of an indictment. See State ex rel. Holmes v. Salinas, 784 S.W.2d 421, 424 (Tex. Crim. App. 1990). Intermediate appellate courts do not have original habeas corpus

jurisdiction in criminal law matters. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.221(d).

Jurisdiction to grant a writ of habeas corpus in a criminal case vests with the

Court of Criminal Appeals, the district courts, the county courts, or any judge

in those courts. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.05; Ex parte Braswell,

630 S.W.3d 600, 601-02 (Tex. App.—Waco 2021, orig.

proceeding). Accordingly, we dismiss Pool’s application for writ of habeas

corpus for want of jurisdiction.

STEVE SMITH Justice

OPINION DELIVERED and FILED: November 6, 2025 Before Chief Justice Johnson, Justice Smith, and Justice Harris Dismissed Do not publish OT06

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