Ex Parte Layman

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

On October 31, 1940, relator presented to the Presiding Judge of this Court an application for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he set up that in 1934 relator had been convicted in the District Court of Somervell County of “robbery with firearms,” and his punishment had been assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Relator then averred, (a) that there was no pleading on behalf of the State upon which to base the verdict of the jury and the judgment of the court in assessing a life sentence, (b) that the verdict and the judgment were not responsive to…