in Re Dan Vernon West, Relator

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

JAMES T. CAMPBELL, Justice.

Relator Dan Vernon West, acting pro se, has filed in this court a petition for mandamus asking that we order the Hon. John B. Board, judge of the 181st District Court of Randall County, to recuse himself or request the presiding judge of the administrative judicial district to assign a judge to hear the motion.

According to his petition, the relief relator seeks in this original proceeding relates to trial court cause number 19,298-B, pending in the 181st District Court, a criminal case in which relator is the defendant. Although…