Stakes v. Rogers

This is an application for a writ of mandamus filed in this Court as an original proceeding. Otis Mize was convicted of a felony in each of seven counties, his sentence being two years in some cases and four years in others. Presumably all of these judgments ran concurrently. Some time thereafter he was convicted in Armstrong County and given a sentence of two years, the judgment in that case providing that the sentence should be “cumulative to all other penalties anywhere assessed against said defendant.” After having served in the penitentiary for a period of four years, Mize applied to the…