In Re Arroyo

The common issue presented in these two original mandamus proceedings is whether, after the 1997 amendments to the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, appeal affords adequate relief from an order sustaining a contest to an affidavit of indigence and thus requiring advance payment of appellate costs, so that review by mandamus is no longer available. We hold that the amended rules make appeal an adequate remedy, and accordingly we deny both petitions.

Relator Michael T. Holloway’s appeal from an adverse judgment in the trial court is pending in the court of appeals. The record has not been…