Ex Parte Anderson

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Relator, a convict in the State penitentiary, presented to Honorable Max Rogers, Judge of the District Court of Walker County, his application for the writ of habeas corpus alleging that he was illegally detained of his liberty by the penitentiary authorities. He sought his outright discharge from custody.

The basis of relator’s contention is that, under the provisions of Chapter 180, Acts of the Forty-ninth Legislature in 1945, page 245, appearing as Article 6184-L of Vernon’s Civil Statutes 1 , granting to convicts 20 days per month commutation of sentence for good conduct,…