Ex parte Watkins

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is a post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding, authorized by Article 11.07, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P.

The petitioner was convicted in the 34th Judicial District Court of El Paso County for the offense of murder and his punishment was assessed by the court at fifty years imprisonment.

In his petition for writ of habeas corpus the petitioner alleges that the conviction is void because the “court was without jurisdiction to accept a plea of guilty and waiver of the right to trial by jury in this cause by reason of the fact that said cause was a capital case.”

The…