Ex parte Darden

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding attacking the validity of a life sentence for burglary assessed petitioner in the Criminal District Court of Tarrant County in the year 1951, wherein two prior convictions were used to enhance the punishment.

From the record made at the hearing before the trial judge, which resulted in the granting of the writ returnable to this court, it appears that in one of the prior convictions for the offense of burglary, in the 86th Judicial Court of Kaufman County, on May 9, 1949, petitioner waived a jury and pleaded guilty before the court without…