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EX PARTE GOSS

No. 26713.

262 S.W.2d 412 (1953)

Ex parte GOSS.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 4, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Ivey, D. M. Teague, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., George P. Blackburn, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Charles S. Potts, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

Relator Leroy Goss seeks discharge from the State Penitentiary where he has served more than five years of a life sentence for robbery with firearms.

Under the law as set forth in Ex parte Erwin, 145 Tex.Cr.R. 504, 170 S.W.2d 226, he is entitled to his discharge because the statute does not authorize the punishment of imprisonment for life for robbery with firearms.

The holding in Ex parte...

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