Ex Parte Brannon

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant is held in jail pending his appeal to this court from a conviction for the offense of making threats to extort money, as defined in Art. 1268(a) V.A.P.C. Having been assessed a term of 25 years in the penitentiary, he is not allowed to make bond.

This is an appeal from an order in a habeas corpus proceeding wherein, after hearing, the district judge refused to discharge him.

The conviction is attacked as void upon the contention that the count in the indictment under which he was convicted is too vague, uncertain and indefinite; fails to set out in intelligible language…