Texas. Court of Appeals (3rd)

Texas Courts of Civil Appeals were first established in 1891 by constitutional amendment (Article V, Section 6). This expansion of the appellate system was designed to reduce the backlog of cases on the Texas Supreme Court docket. At a special session called to implement this amendment in 1892, the 22nd Texas Legislature, 1st Called Session (through Senate Bill 18) divided the state into three supreme judicial districts. Over the next century the judicial system expanded to fourteen supreme judicial districts. Boundaries of geographic jurisdiction have been specified by statute. Justices are elected by the voters of their districts for a term of six years.

The Third Supreme Judicial District originally included most of the counties of central, south, and west Texas, including the following 73 counties, but only for the two years 1892-1893: Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brewster, Brown, Buchel, Burnet, Caldwell, Coke, Coleman, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Crockett, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, El Paso, Encinal, Falls, Foley, Freestone, Frio, Gillespie, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hays, Irion, Jeff Davis, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Lampasas, LaSalle, Lee, Limestone, Live Oak, Llano, Mason, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Milam, Mills, Navarro, Pecos, Presidio, Robertson, Runnels, San Saba, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton, Tom Green, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Williamson, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala. (Buchel and Foley Counties were abolished in 1897.)

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