Ex Parte Ranels

WOODLEY, Judge.

Relator is confined in the penitentiary under a life sentence pronounced on October 22, 1937, in Cause No. 8100, in the district court of Montgomery County, Texas, the conviction being for the offense of robbery.

The indictment alleged three previous convictions for felonies less than capital, successively committed, in addition to the primary offense.

Upon the contention that the judgment and sentence against him is void, relator filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus addressed to the Honorable Max M. Rogers, Judge of the 12th Judicial District of Texas, who set same down…