Coleman v. State

HOLCOMB, Justice.

Appellant, who was an inmate at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division (“TDCJ-ID”), was found guilty of aggravated assault on a correctional officer and given life imprisonment after a jury also found the enhancement paragraphs to be true. Appellant argues that the trial court erred in ordering Appellant’s sentence to run consecutively to another sentence which Appellant had not yet begun to serve at the time of this offense, in violation of Texas Code of CRIMINAL PROCEDURE article 42.08(a)(b). We will affirm.

Appellant was an inmate in the Michael…