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67 Mo. 174

Williamson's Case

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided October 15, 1877

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1877-10-15

<p>Criminal Law: cumulative sentences: statute construed. Where a prisoner is convicted on the same day under two distinct indictments, and is separately sentenced under each, to a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary, the terms are not concurrent, but one commences when the other ends, and the prisoner is not entitled to be discharged until both have expired. Wag. Stat., p. 513, § 7, (folhwing ex parte Turner 45 Mo. 331).</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1890

1 state decisions

Relies on Ex parte Turner

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Decided 1877-10-15

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Sherwood, C. J.

¶1The petitioner, in the custody of the Warden of the Penitentiary, has been brought before us by writ of habeas corpus. The return to the writ shows that the prisoner was convicted on the same day, under two separate indictments for grand larceny, and separately sentenced under each indictment, to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The statute governing cases of this character, is as follows : “When any person shall be convicted of two or more offenses, before sentence shall have been pronounced upon him for either offense, the *175imprisonment to which he shall be sentenced upon the second or other subsequent conviction, shall commence at the termination of the term of imprisonment to which he shall be adjudged upon prior conviction.” (1 Wag. Stat., p. 513, § 9.) ■

¶2The statute has been complied with in the present instance ; the case of ex parte Turner, (45 Mo. 331,) is directly in point, and as only a small portion of the second term of the prisoner has expired, the prisoner will be remanded into the custody of the warden.

All concur.

¶3Prisoner Remanded.

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