Keys v. State

ORDER

JOSH R. MORRISS, III, Chief Justice.

After finding Paul Kevin Keys guilty of driving while intoxicated (DWI), 1 a Franklin County jury assessed Keys’ punishment as a fine in the amount of $2,000.00 “and/ or” confinement for a period of 183 days. The trial court entered judgment sentencing Keys to 183 days in the county jail in addition to a fine in the amount of $2,000.00, but, according to the record, never actually orally pronounced the sentence in Keys’ presence. 2 On appeal, Keys claims first that the trial court committed fundamental error in failing to impose the sentence in open…