Ex Parte Alegria

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is a post conviction habeas corpus proceedings wherein the petitioner, an inmate of the Texas Department of Corrections, seeks to challenge the constitutionality of Article 42.12, Sec. 15(a), Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., as amended 1967, insofar as it has application to his eligibility for parole under a life sentence imposed in 1961.

Petitioner contends that the statute relating to parole eligibility in effect at the time of the commission of the offense for which he was convicted and at the time he was convicted would authorize his eligibility for parole upon his…