COLLINS v. KEGANS

No. 71166.

802 S.W.2d 702 (1991)

James A. COLLINS, Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Relator, v. The Honorable Joe KEGANS, Judge of the 230th Judicial District Court of Harris County Texas, Respondent.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

January 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., & Mary F. Keller, Lou McCreary, Michael P. Hodge, Ann Kraatz & William C. Zapalac, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, for relator.

Stanley G. Schneider & Judge Joe Kegans, Houston, for respondent.

Tom Moran & Kimberly De La Garza, Houston, for real party in interest.

Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION

McCORMICK, Presiding Judge.

This is an original mandamus proceeding. The Relator is James A. Collins, Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (hereinafter "DOJ"), and the Respondent is the Honorable Joe Kegans, Judge of the 230th Judicial District Court of Harris County. Relator is seeking a writ of mandamus from this Court compelling Respondent to rescind a judgment and sentence issued in the case styled, "The...

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