Ex parte Jones

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is an application for permission to file, in this court, an original petition for the writ of habeas corpus by which relator seeks to be discharged from the custody of the Sheriff of Jasper County, Texas. The petition so desired to be filed accompanies the application.

■ It appears that, on the 22nd day of August, 1942, relator was, upon his waiver of trial by jury and plea of guilty, duly convicted, by the Judge of the District Court of Jasper County, Texas, of the offense of felony theft, the punishment assessed being confinement in. the State penitentiary for a term of…