Court Opinion

ID: 9774309
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:14:46.14486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:05.506947
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ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
WOODLEY, Judge.
It is well settled that Art. 63, P.C. is reformatory in nature and to invoke its provisions it is necessary that each succeeding conviction be subsequent to previous convictions both in time of commission of the offense and the conviction therefor. The indictment must so allege and the averments of the indictment must be supported by proof. 1 Branch’s Ann.P.C.2d, Sec. 698; Arbuckle v. State, 132 Tex.Cr.R. 41, 105 S.W.2d 219; Armendariz v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 515, 294 S.W.2d 98; Rogers v. State, 168 Tex.Cr.R. 306, 325 S.W.2d 697; Rogers v. State, 169 Tex.Cr.R. 239, 333 S.W.2d 383; Cortez v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 314 S.W.2d 589; Hobbs v. State, 171 Tex.Cr.R. 607, 352 S.W.2d 836; Cowan v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 355 S.W.2d 521.
A re-examination of the statement of facts fails to disclose any evidence to sustain the allegation of the indictment that the offense for which appellant was convicted in Cause No. 75895 was committed after the judgment of conviction in Cause No. 65729, on January 25, 1952, or the judgment of conviction in Cause No. 62191 on December 19, 1949, became final.
Also no evidence is found to support the allegation of the indictment that the conviction in Cause No. 65729 on January 25, 1952, was for an offense committed after the conviction in Cause No. 62191 became final.
There is however ample evidence that appellant had been convicted of burglary in both such cases prior to the commission of the burglary charged in the indictment.
It follows that the indictment, evidence and findings of the jury are sufficient to invoke the provisions of Art. 62, P.C. which provide the maximum punishment for burglary in ordinary cases as the definite punishment for a second conviction for a non-capital felony of the same nature. Fairris v. State, 171 Tex.Cr.R. 416, 350 S.W.2d 935, 937, overruling Granado v. State, 168 Tex.Cr.R. 525, 329 S.W.2d 864; Gibbs v. State, concurring opinion, 169 Tex.Cr.R. 608, 336 S.W.2d 625; Madeley v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 388 S.W.2d 187.
The judgment and sentence are reformed to provide for appellant’s confinement in *61the Texas Department of Corrections for a term of 12 years.
As reformed, the judgment is affirmed and appellant’s motion for rehearing on other grounds is overruled.