Ex Parte Lee Cassas

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— This is an appeal from the order of the trial court refusing to discharge the appellant on a writ of habeas corpus. He was convicted of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquors, and on appeal the judgment of conviction appeared regular and was affirmed. See Cassius v. State, 7 S. W. (2d) 530. After the judgment became final, appellant sought his release by way of a writ of habeas corpus upon the ground that a part of his trial was conducted during his absence. In his motion for new trial in the trial court and in preparing his record for appeal no reference was…