Ex Parte Carter

OPINION

TOM G. DAVIS, Judge.

This is a post-conviction application for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to Art. 11.07, V.A.C.C.P.

Petitioner was convicted of robbery by assault on February 20, 1973. Punishment, enhanced by a prior conviction, was assessed at life. The conviction was affirmed on appeal in Garter v. State, 550 S.W.2d 282 (Tex.Cr.App.). One of the grounds of error advanced and rejected in that appeal, was that the court had erred in allowing petitioner to be impeached with evidence showing that he had been arrested in thirteen felony cases which had not resulted in convictions.…