Ex Parte Richard Mark Bowman

OPINION ON REMAND

Terry Jennings, Justice

Appellant, Richard Mark Bowman, challenges the trial court’s order denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus. 1 In two issues, appellant contends that the trial 'court ’erred in concluding that the State’s defense of laches bars his claim for habeas corpus relief, which he asserts on the ground of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, and in further denying him such relief -on the merits from a judgment of conviction of the misdemeanor offense of driving while intoxicated (“DWI”). 2

In appellant’s initial appeal, the State, for the first…