Jackson v. TEXAS BD. OF PARDONS AND PAROLES

OPINION

EVELYN V. KEYES, Justice.

After the trial court dismissed his lawsuit to expunge his record, appellant, Donald C. Jackson, attempted to obtain a free appellate record. Appellant filed an affidavit of indigency, which the District Clerk contested. The trial court sustained the contest. In two points of error, appellant argues that the trial court abused its discretion by (1) sustaining the District Clerk’s contest to appellant’s affidavit of indigency on the ground that no arguable basis of law existed to warrant a free copy of the record on appeal and (2) holding that appellant’s…