Legal Opinion
Worthington v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided September 12, 2001No. 0558-01, 0559-01PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
The opinion of the Court was delivered
2Per curiam
A jury convicted Appellant of murder and assessed his punishment at forty years. The trial court later revoked Ap pellant’s probation for burglary and assessed punishment at ten years, cumulated with the murder sentence. The Court of Appeals held that the cumulation order was improper under Article 42.08(a), V.A.C.C.P., due to the order of the convictions. It modified the cumulation order and affirmed the conviction as reformed. Worthington v. State, 38 S.W.3d 815 (Tex.App. —Houston [14th Dist.] 2001).
The State filed a petition for discretionary…