Ex parte Loper

GRAVES, Judge.

*241Relator was granted a writ of habeas corpus in the district court of Houston County, alleging that he was illegally held by the authorities of the state prison system upon a conviction in the district court of Harris County wherein he was convicted of rape and assessed a penalty of fifty years in the penitentiary. He claimed herein that this conviction was void for many reasons, all of which are matters that could have and should have been urged upon the trial of the Harris County case or upon an appeal therefrom. He failed to appeal such cause.

It appears that the Harris County…