Jacoby v. State

OPINION

EVELYN V. KEYES, Justice.

Appellant, Benjamin Scott Jacoby, pleaded guilty, without a sentencing recommendation, to two charges of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. See Tex. Pen.Code ANN. § 29.03 (Vernon 2003). The trial court assessed punishment at 40 years’ confinement for each offense, each sentence to run concurrently with the other. In both appellate cause numbers, in two points of error, appellant argues that (1) the sentences imposed for his convictions constitute cruel and unusual punishment and (2) his trial counsel’s failure to object to the sentences during the…