Ex Parte Rogers

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The relator is confined in the penitentiary under a conviction in Cause No. 23345 in Criminal District Court of Jefferson County. The indictment, drawn under Art. 725c Vernon’s Ann.P.C., alleged that he was “addicted to the use of narcotic drugs”, he not being a person who had a medical need for narcotic drugs and not being a person who obtains narcotic drugs required for such medical need in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas and of the United States.

Upon a plea of guilty to said indictment, relator was assessed a term of 5 years. Probation was granted…