Ex Parte Garcia

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

A jury convicted the petitioner of unlawful possession of firearm by felon, and it found to be true two enhancement allegations of prior felony convictions. Accordingly, the petitioner was sentenced to confinement for life.

On appeal, we affirmed the judgment in a per curiam opinion (No. 50,243 on June 4, 1975). We denied two applications for ha-beas corpus without opinion (on October 6, 1976 and January 5, 1977).

In his third application for habeas corpus relief, the petitioner attacked one of the prior convictions used to enhance his punishment. This was a conviction in…