Ex Parte Cruz

OPINION

McCORMICK, Judge.

This is a habeas corpus application filed pursuant to Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P. After a jury trial, applicant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The trial judge assessed punishment at 5 years’ confinement. The Houston Court of Appeals affirmed applicant’s conviction in an unpublished opinion delivered on March 15, 1984.

Applicant now contends that he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel at trial. Initially, he alleges that trial counsel improperly advised him that he was eligible to receive probation from the court, when in fact he was ineligible…