DocketNumber: No. 24814
Citation Numbers: 154 Tex. Crim. 501, 228 S.W.2d 854
Judges: Graves
Filed Date: 4/12/1950
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/13/2023
This is an application for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus on the part of relator who is an inmate of the state penitentiary under a life term sentence.
It is claimed that an erroneous judgment was entered at the time of relator’s conviction upon the verdict of the jury which assessed such life term.
We are not furnished with a certified copy of such judgment. However, we do have a copy of a judgment in the original case showing a correction nunc pro tunc of the original judgment (the copy being dated March 15, 1950) entered in the original case correcting an error in the original judgment, which original judgment was evidently uncertain in that it provided for a confinement in the state penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than life.
It appears that relator, at the time of such presentation and at this time, is confined in the state penitentiary upon a proper judgment and sentence. Therefore, the issuance of the writ prayed for herein is denied.