Ex Parte East

WOODLEY, Judge.

Relator is confined in the penitentiary under life sentence for robbery by assault pronounced against him in the 77th District Court of Limestone County, Texas, on July 5, 1944.

Application for writ of habeas corpus was made to the judge of that court in this proceeding; and, after a hearing, the writ was issued returnable to this court, as provided by Art. 119, Vernon’s Ann. C. C. P.

The judgment of conviction rendered by the trial court, a jury being waived, assessed the punishment at “confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of not less than five years, nor more than…