Ex Parte Layton

QUINN, Justice.

David Layton petitioned the court for a “writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum.” The relief is sought to enable him to appear at a hearing to “presents [sic] additional and clear facts” and to “demanstrate [sic] the exacte [sic] nature of “who and how5 he was ‘set up’ of the crime of which he was unlawfully convicted.” We dismiss the petition.

Our jurisdiction to issue writs of habeas corpus is quite limited. Ex parte Hawkins, 885 S.W.2d 586, 587 (Tex.App.—El Paso 1994, no writ). It extends only to those situations wherein a person is restrained of his liberty “by virtue of an…