                             NUMBER 13-15-00396-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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                 EX PARTE JUAN VILLARREAL
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                 On appeal from the 319th Court
                   of Nueces County, Texas.
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Garza, Benavides, and Longoria
                       Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

       Appellant, Juan Villarreal, proceeding pro se, filed a notice of appeal seeking to

challenge the trial court’s findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendation that

the appellant’s application for writ of habeas corpus be dismissed. On August 31, 2015,

the Clerk of this Court notified appellant that it appeared this Court does not have

jurisdiction over the order subject to appeal in this cause, and requested correction of this
defect within ten days or the appeal would be dismissed. Appellant responded by filing

an amended notice of appeal.

       Jurisdiction to grant post-conviction habeas corpus relief in felony cases rests

exclusively with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art.

11.07, § 5 (Vernon Supp. 2011); Bd. of Pardons & Paroles ex rel. Keene v. Court of

Appeals for the Eighth Dist., 910 S.W.2d 481, 483 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995); In re McAfee,

53   S.W.3d     715,       717–18   (Tex.   App.—Houston     [1st   Dist.]   2001,   orig.

proceeding). Therefore, we are without jurisdiction to grant the requested relief.

       The appeal is DISMISSED for want of jurisdiction.



                                                       PER CURIAM


Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the
22nd day of October, 2015.




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