Ex Parte Jones

ON the merits.

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The record having been perfected, the appeal is reinstated and the case considered on its merits.

On the 16th day of December, 1936, appellant was, on a plea of guilty, convicted in the county court of Hopkins County of a misdemeanor. Thereafter, on the 18th day of May, 1937, after a capias pro fine had been duly issued by the clerk of the county court appellant was arrested and lodged in jail. On the 22nd day of May, 1937, he made application to the district judge of Hopkins County for a writ of habeas corpus on the allegation that the judgment convicting him…