Ex Parte Collier

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding under Article 11.07, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., and in accordance with the holding in Ex parte Jack Young, Tex.Cr.App., 418 S.W.2d 824. The petitioner is confined in the Texas Department of Corrections under sentence in Cause No. 19,804 of the District Court of the 71st Judicial District of Harrison County, Texas, on June 16, 1964, ordering his confinement for life for the offense of robbery by the use of a firearm.

Under Art. 1408, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., the punishment for robbery with firearms is “death or by confinement in the penitentiary for…