Case Name: Ex parte WOOD
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1954-03-03
Citations: 264 S.W.2d 952
Docket Number: No. 26930
Parties: Ex parte WOOD.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 264
Pages: 952–952

Head Matter:
Ex parte WOOD.
No. 26930.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 3, 1954.
J. P. Darrouzet, Austin, for appellant.
Wesley Dice, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
WOODLEY, Judge.
Relator is confined in the penitentiary and seeks release upon the contention that he has served the sentences imposed.
On August 4, 1950, relator was sentenced to a term of two years in the penitentiary in Cause No. 17008 in the District Court of Navarro County. This sentence was credited with the time from April 17, 1950, to August 4, 1950, and contained the provision that the sentence "shall 'begin when the judgments heretofore imposed against said defendant in Freestone and Grayson Counties shall cease to operate."
Such provision for cumulation has been held insufficient in law to prevent the sentence from being served concurrently. See Ex parte Johnson, Tex.Cr.App., 218 S.W.2d 200; Ex parte George Cordes, Tex.Cr.App., 264 S.W.2d 438.
Two additional two year sentences were pronounced against relator in the District Court of Navarro County on August 4, 1950, the sentence in Cause No. 17009 providing that it should begin at the expiration of the sentence in the above-mentioned Cause No. 17008, and the sentence in Cause No. 17010 was ordered to begin at the expiration of the sentence in Cause No. 17009.
The prior sentences as well as the three cumulated sentences mentioned appear to have been served, it being shown that relator has credit for more than six years from and after August 4, 1950.
He is therefore entitled to be discharged from the penitentiary.
The writ is granted and relator will be discharged from further confinement under such sentences.