Ex parte Lewis

320 S.W.2d 17, 167 Tex. Crim. 237, 1959 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1821

• Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
• Decided: January 21, 1959
• Docket: No. 30,486
• Status: Published

Opinion

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

This is an original application for a writ of habeas corpus brought by the relator Thomas Lewis seeking his release from the penitentiary. He alleges that the order cumulating the sentences by virtue of which he is confined is ineffectual.

According to the information furnished this court, relator was sentenced in the following causes:

DATE COURT NO. TERM (YEARS) ORDER

May 10,1937 District Court of Gregg 2484-C County, Texas No order of cumulation

May 10,1937 District Court of Gregg County, Texas 2485-C This sentence to begin at expiration of the Sentence No. 2484-C Gregg, County, Texas, against the same defendant.

May 10,1937 District Court of Gregg 2486-C No order of cumulation

November 28, District Court of Potter 6352 1938 County, Texas 14 It is further ordered by the Court that the sentence in this cause run cumulative to a prior sentence against the said defendant in another County in Texas, in accordance with law.

December 16, District Court of 1952 Hemphill County, Texas 2068 10 No order of cumulation

In Ex parte Bradshaw, 165 Texas Cr. Rep. 554, 310 S.W. 2d 115; Ex parte Robbins, 158 Texas Cr. Rep. 48, 253 S.W. 2d 53; Ex parte Merritt, 159 Texas Cr. Rep. 87, 261 S.W. 2d 596; and Ex parte Henson, 161 Texas Cr. Rep. 427, 278 S.W. 2d 168, we held that an order similar to the one before us in Cause No. 6352 from the district court of Potter County was ineffectual.

We have been furnished with a certificate of the Texas Prison System showing that relator now has credit for 19 years, 1 month and 27 days in the penitentiary. Further, the certificate shows that relator has completed the 10 year sentence from Hemphill County.

The writ of habeas corpus is granted, and the relator is ordered discharged from confinement under the above sentence.