Perez v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an out-of-time appeal growing out of a post conviction writ of habeas corpus filed under the provisions of Article 11.07, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P. Appellant’s 1964 conviction for sale of heroin where the punishment, enhanced under Article 725b, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., as a second offender, was assessed at 50 years, was originally affirmed by this court in 403 S.W.2d 143 (Tex.Cr.App.1966). At the time it does not appear that the indigent appellant was represented by counsel and was, thus, deprived of an effective review of his conviction on appeal.

Counsel has been…