WEST, District Judge:
Petitioner, Truman Eldin McDonald, seeks a writ of habeas corpus. He is presently serving a life term at Louisiana State Penitentiary for murder, and faces an additional sentence of fifteen years for attempted armed robbery, which sentence is to run consecutively with the life sentence for murder. Both sentences were imposed by the Judge of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, on June 4, 1962...
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