Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Richmond

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 6, 1956No. 28432PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Judge.

By writ of habeas corpus, relator, a convict in the state penitentiary, seeks his discharge from further custody.

We come directly to the solé question presented, which is: the sufficiency of an order attempting to cumulate relator’s sentence with another case. The order of cu-mulation reads as follows:

“ ‘this sentence to begin when the judgment and sentence in Cause No. 61790 has ceased to operate.’ ”

It will be noted that there is an entire absence-in that order of any reference to the style of the case or to the court in'which it was alleged to have been entered.

Neither the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ex Parte HamiltonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1956

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Ex Parte LewisCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1967
  2. Ex Parte MarchCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
  3. Ex Parte OgletreeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1959
  4. Ex Parte BazemoreCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
  5. Ex Parte BazemoreCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968

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