Case Name: Ex parte James LEE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1955-04-20
Citations: 278 S.W.2d 137
Docket Number: No. 27610
Parties: Ex parte James LEE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 278
Pages: 137–138

Head Matter:
Ex parte James LEE.
No. 27610.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 20, 1955.
No attorney on appeal for appellant.
Leon Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Presiding 'Judge.
Relator, 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.
- The 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 Í19, Vernon's Ann.C.C.P.
From the certified copies q£ the-judgment and sentences forwarded to this .Court, we learn the following: • - -
On 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.
On 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 'cdncludés' -with this order: "Sentenced cumulative with 49096." This order is sufficient and effective to cumulate these two sentences. Ex parte Snow, 151 Tex.Cr.R. 640, 209 S.W.2d 931.
On the same day- in thé sanie - b'oúrt 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!'caiisé concludes with this order: "Sentenced cumtfl'a-tive with 49098." This' order is- sufficient and effective. Ex parte Snow, supra.." '
Relator has not shown that he has served the twenty-five years imposed uppn 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.
The relief prayed for is denied.