Court Opinion

ID: 9761511
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:44:19.365214+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:24.060489
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OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
W. C. DAVIS, Judge.
In our opinion on original submission, this Court concluded that the petitioner’s punishment for convictions for five separate *606theft offenses, obtained under a five-count indictment, were improperly enhanced.
The State in its motion asserts that a prior conviction for a federal offense was properly used for enhancement purposes. We agree and grant the State’s Motion for Rehearing.
In Ex Parte Blume, 618 S.W.2d 373 (Tex.Cr.App.1981), we concluded that even though a particular federal offense was not an offense under the laws of this state, a conviction for that federal offense could nonetheless be used for enhancement purposes under V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 12.42. In the instant case, the use of the federal felony conviction to enhance the punishment was proper.
In granting the State’s Motion for Rehearing, we do not disturb the remainder of our earlier decision. Each of the five counts were enhanced by the same two prior convictions. We have now determined that the use of the federal conviction for enhancement was valid; thus, the punishment for the first count was proper. However, the remaining convictions were improperly enhanced by the same prior felony convictions. The cause is remanded for the court to reassess punishment obtained under the second through fifth counts of the indictment within the range provided by V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 12.34.
It is so ordered.