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161 Tex. Crim. 398

278 S.W.2d 137

Docket No. 27610.

Ex Parte Lee

Ex parte James LEE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 20, 1955.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1955-04-20

Relies on 151 Tex. Crim. 640 - Ex Parte Snow

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Decided 1955-04-20

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¶1No attorney on appeal for appellant.

¶2Leon Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

¶3MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

¶4Relator, an inmate of the Texas Prison System, seeks his release by writ of habeas corpus alleging that the cumulation of the sentences which he is serving is defective.

¶5The writ was granted by the Honorable Langston King, Judge of the Criminal District Court No. 2 of Harris. County, and made returnable to this Court in accordance with Article 119, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P.

¶6From the certified copies of the judgment and sentences forwarded to this Court, we learn the following:

¶7On September 9, 1940, in Cause No. 49,096 in the Criminal District Court No. 2 of Harris County, the relator plead guilty to the offense of robbery by assault and his punishment was assessed at ten years.

¶8On the same day in the same court in Cause No. 49,098, the relator plead guilty to the offense of robbery by assault and his punishment was assessed at ten years. The sentence in this cause concludes with this order: "Sentenced cumulative with 49096." This order is sufficient and effective to cumulate these two sentence. Ex parte Snow, 151 Tex.Cr.R. 640, 209 S.W.2d 931.

¶9On the same day in the same court in Cause No. 49,102, the relator plead guilty to still another offense of robbery by assault and his punishment was assessed at five years. The sentence in this cause concludes with this order: "Sentenced cumulative with 49098." This order is sufficient and effective. Ex parte Snow, supra.

¶10Relator has not shown that he has served the twenty-five years imposed upon him by these three Harris County sentences and is therefore not entitled to discharge. We will not therefore pass upon the sufficiency of the provision attempting to cumulate other sentences by virtue of which relator is confined.

¶11The relief prayed for is denied.

¶12DAVIDSON, Judge (dissenting).

¶13My brethren reach the conclusion that a sentence is cumulated with that of another *138 case, when no other identification of that case is given save and except by a number, with no reference whatsoever as to the court in which that sentence was rendered or the name of the accused against whom the sentence was passed.

¶14The conclusion of my brethren is founded upon the case of Ex parte Snow, 151 Tex.Cr.R. 640, 209 S.W.2d 931.

¶15My views are stated in the dissenting opinion of the late Judge Hawkins in the Snow case. The correctness of the views there expressed is unassailable. They should be adopted as the opinion of this court, and the Snow case should be overruled.

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