Ex parte Pruitt

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Relator presented to this Court his application for an original writ of habeas corpus seeking relief against a judgment of conviction with an assessed punishment of life in the penitentiary. The writ was not issued, but the application therefor was set down for hearing.

Attached to relator’s application are the indictment, judgment and sentence in a case from Swisher County. The indictment charged relator with the offense of burglary alleged to have been committed on January 3, 1937. The State, seeking to invoke the punishment provided under the habitual criminal…