Ex parte Patterson

GRAVES, Judge.

Relator was convicted in 1934 in causes Nos. 9430, 9431 and 9432 in the District Court of Walker County of the offenses of aiding prisoner to escape, and, waiving a jury, was tried before the court on a plea of guilty in each instance and sentenced in each case to serve five years in the penitentiary. There is shown by uncontradicted testimony that the relator’s sentences in causes Nos. 9431 and 9432 were made cumulative by the court in orally sentencing relator, and that he was informed by the trial court that he was to be sentenced to a total term of fifteen years in the…