Ex Parte Florence

Pursuant to Article 11.07 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the clerk of the trial court transmitted to this Court this application for writ of habeas corpus. 1

We shall dismiss this application because, in a case such as this in which a convicted person is seeking credit for pre-sentence confinement, habeas corpus is not the correct procedure.

In 1991, Applicant was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. On July 6, 1992, while serving a sentence for that conviction, he committed the offense of possession of a deadly weapon in a penal institution. He was indicted for the subsequent…