Ex Parte Kelley

DAVIDSON, Judge.

On October 24, 1951, relator waived the right of trial by jury before the court in each of eight cases pending against him in the Criminal District Court of Harris County, Texas, and numbered upon the docket of that court as 65,292 to 65,299, inclusive. In five of the cases the offense charged against appellant was that of forgery and in three, that of passing forged instrument.

Upon that plea, the trial court assessed relator’s punishment at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary in each case. In passing sentence upon that judgment, the punishment in each case succeeding…