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Cumulative sentences

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Separate sentences (each additional to the others) imposed upon a defendant who has been convicted upon an indictment containing several counts, each of such counts charging a distinct offense, or who is under conviction at the same time for several distinct offenses ; one of such sentences being made to begin at the expiration of another.

Carter v. McClaughry, 183 U. S. 365 , 22 Sun. Ct. 181, 46 L. Ed. 236; State v. Hamby, 126 N. C. 1066, 35 S. E. 614,