Ex Parte Caldwell

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

This is a post-conviction application for the writ of habeas corpus under the provisions of Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P., in which petitioner seeks his release from confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

In a single trial before a jury in the Criminal District Court No. 4 of Dallas County, petitioner was convicted in two cases of rape (our No. 49,112) and robbery by firearms (our No. 49,113). Punishment for rape was assessed at fifteen hundred years, and for robbery, one thousand years. On appeal, both judgments were affirmed with per curiam opinions.

In his…