Case Name: Ex parte Charles G. DAVIS
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1956-03-14
Citations: 287 S.W.2d 952
Docket Number: No. 28242
Parties: Ex parte Charles G. DAVIS.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 287
Pages: 952–952

Head Matter:
Ex parte Charles G. DAVIS.
No. 28242.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 14, 1956.
No attorney on appeal for appellant.
Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
WOODLEY, Judge.
Relator, an inmate of the Penitentiaries of this State, applied to the Hon. Langston King, Judge of Criminal District Court No. 2 of Harris County, for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was convicted in said Criminal District Court No. 2 of Harris County in Cause No. 68064 and assessed a two year term for theft by bailee, and on the same day was assessed a term of five years for robbery in Criminal District Court in Cause No. 68243.
Relator further alleged that the sentence in Cause No. 68243 was cumulated so as to begin at the expiration of the sentence in Cause No. 68064, when in fact the sentence in Cause No. 68243 was pronounced before the sentence in No. 68064.
Judge King granted the writ and, certifying that he had no independent recollection of Cause No. 68064 and that Judge Williford, who presided in Cause No. 68243, is dead, made the writ returnable before this Court as provided in Art. 119, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P.
The record shows that relator was credited with time in jail in Cause No. 68064, and there is nothing, unless it be appellant's affidavit, to show that the conviction in that cause was not in existence when sentence was pronounced by Judge Williford in Cause No. 68243. The proceedings being had on pleas of guilty on the same day, it is obvious that in the first conviction appellant was allowed credit for time in jail, and,upon the second conviction the sentence was cumulated.
The relief prayed for is denied.