Ex Parte Dowden

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The relator in a habeas corpus proceedings attacks the validity of his fifty year sentence for robbery by assault.

It is undisputed that on the same day that an attorney was appointed by the trial court to represent the relator Dowden as provided by Art. 494, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P. (now Art. 26.04 C.C.P.), the relator entered a plea of guilty in Cause No. 5676, in the District Court of Orange County, Texas, and the court proceeded to hear and render its decision, and also on that day pronounced sentence against him.

Art. 494, supra, in effect at the time of this conviction,…