Ex Parte Gallogly

KRUEGER, Judge.

It appears from the record before us that Richard G. Gal logly, the appellant, was, in the year 1929, charged with murder by two indictments returned by the Grand Jury of Fulton County, Georgia. He was tried and convicted and his punishment in each instance assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for life. In the early part of October, 1939, he escaped from that State and came to Dallas, Texas, where he surrendered to the sheriff, stating that he was a “life-termer” and had made his escape from the state penitentiary of Georgia. On the 11th day of October, 1939, the…