Nixon, Reginald

OPINION

in which MEYERS, JOHNSON, HERVEY, RICHARDSON, and NEWELL, JJ., joined.

At Reginald Nixon’s trial, the jury returned punishment verdicts of seven years’ and nine years’ confinement for two charged • offenses to run consecutively. The judge instructed the jury .that, by law, the sentences would be served concurrently. After additional deliberations, the jury returned verdicts of sixteen years’ confinement for each charge. According to statute, however, the judge was requiréd to accept the original' verdicts and -reform them in accordance with the law. We thereforé must reverse the court…