Ex Parte Stephens

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of a felony and sent to the penitentiary. Upon his return he was arrested under a conviction in the County Court wherein his punishment was assessed at confinement in the county jail and a fine. After being arrested under a copias profine from the County Court, he was hired out under a convict bond at $10 a month. After proper length of time this bond was paid ofE by the hirer and the bond canceled. He was then placed in jail under the imprisonment portion of the verdict. Appellant resorted to the writ of habeas corpus before the county judge…