Flowers v. State

BRETT, Judge:

Without the aid of counsel, Ruben J. Flowers filed in this Court his petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking his release from confinement in the state penitentiary. Rule to show cause was issued, and a response has been filed by the Attorney General on behalf of the respondents.

The petitioner complains that he was convicted on a charge of burglary in the second degree, and sentenced to twenty years in the State Penitentiary, and that the maximum punishment provided by the statute for the crime for which he was convicted is seven years in the penitentiary.

In his response, the…