Ex Parte Ortega

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the order entered in a habeas corpus proceeding denying the application seeking discharge from custody.

Jose Ortega, the petitioner, was convicted in Reeves County in 1958 in two burglary cases and sentenced to serve a total of 8 years. He was received at the penitentiary on May 8, 1958. On December 23, 1959, he was paroled.

Ortega was indicted in Winkler County for a burglary allegedly committed on 'or about September 15, 1960. The indictment was returned on October 4, 1960. When the case was called for trial on October 17, 1960, it was continued…