PER CURIAM:
The defendant seeks a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the state trial court's application of the Texas habitual criminal statute setting a punishment of life imprisonment for a third felony conviction amounted to a denial of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The indictment charged the defendant with the possession of marijuana. Vernon's Ann.P.C. art. 63 provides that "Whoever shall have been three times convicted of a felony...
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