Ex Parte Seals

MORRISON, Judge.

The relator was convicted in the corporation court of the city of Houston under a complaint charging a primary offense of speeding; and, in order to enhance the punishment, a prior conviction of speeding was plead.

Relator appealed this conviction to the county court at law, where he was again convicted and a capias pro fine issued. It is from confinement by virtue of such capias that relator applied to the criminal district court of Harris County for a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was granted; a hearing was had; the court remanded relator to custody; and he appealed.

The…