Saldana v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MALONEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in 1987 on his pleas of guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of indecency with a child, and incest. Punishment was assessed by the trial court at fifteen years and ten years in the Texas Department of Corrections on the aggravated sexual assault counts, to be served consecutively, and at five years each on the other counts, to be served concurrently.

The Court of Appeals held that the charges against appellant were misjoined in two indictments,1 and ordered the judgments…