Legal Opinion
Jones v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided November 10, 2005No. 05-04-01625-CVPublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Justice LANG.
Morris S. Jones appeals the trial court’s dismissal, for lack of jurisdiction, of his suit for compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
Jones applied for compensation through the Comptroller, and his request was denied. Then, he sued the State of Texas and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Comptroller of Public Accounts, (collectively the State) for compensation for wrongful imprisonment. The trial court dismissed Jones’s suit for want of jurisdiction concluding that section 103.002 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code statutorily prohibited Jones from attempting…
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