Ex Parte Rice

HARPER, Judge.

In this case appellant had been convicted in the District Court of Hill County, Texas, at the March term of the court in 1907, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. After serving about five and one-half years of the term, the Governor issued him a conditional pardon, which, omitting the formal part, reads as follows:

“How, therefore, I, O. B. Colquitt, Governor of Texas, feel constrained to grant the said D. B. Rice a conditional pardon, and I do by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of this State, hereby, for the reason…