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Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas MEMORANDUM OPINION No. 04-26-00828-CR EX PARTE Lee Edwardo COLLINS, Jr. Original Proceeding 1 PER CURIAM Sitting: Lori I. Valenzuela, Justice Lori Massey Brissette, Justice Adrian A. Spears II, Justice Delivered and Filed: November 4, 2026 DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION On October 19, 2026, Lee Edwardo Collins, Jr. filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus seeking release from custody. We dismiss Collins’s petition for lack of jurisdiction. As an intermediate court of appeals, we do not have original habeas jurisdiction in criminal law matters. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.221(d) (original habeas jurisdiction of the courts of appeals is limited to cases in which a person’s liberty is restrained because they violated an order, judgment, or decree entered in a civil case); see also TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.05 (granting exclusive jurisdiction to consider original petitions for writs of habeas corpus to the court of criminal appeals, the district courts, county courts, and judges sitting on such courts). This 1 This proceeding arises out of Cause No. 2025-CR-002213, styled State of Texas v. Lee Edwardo Collins, Jr., in the 144th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas, the Honorable Michael E. Mery presiding. 04-26-00828-CR court’s jurisdiction to consider habeas petitions in criminal matters is appellate only. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PRO. ANN. art. 4.03; Dodson v. State, 988 S.W.2d 833, 835 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1999, no pet.). Therefore, we lack jurisdiction over this matter and dismiss this original proceeding for want of jurisdiction. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.221(d); In re Neal, 653 S.W.3d 346, 346 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2022, orig. proceeding); In re Spriggs, 528 S.W.3d 234, 236 (Tex. App.— Amarillo 2017, orig. proceeding). PER CURIAM DO NOT PUBLISH -2-