In re Beck

Citations

• 63 Kan. 57
• 64 P. 971
• 1901 Kan. LEXIS 93

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Criminal Practice — Sentence. In a prosecution on an information containing a number of counts, the jury finding the defendant guilty of several of the offenses charged, the court should pronounce a single judgment declaring the full measure of punishment to be imposed for all such offenses.</p> <p>2. - Sentence on Several Counts. A judgment regularly rendered on one of the offenses included in the verdict, which has been executed in part by the imprisonment of the defendant, is the end of the prosecution, and exhausts the power of the court in the case; and the action of the court in bringing in the defendant several years after the rendition of the judgment and sentencing him again on the remaining offenses embraced in the verdict is wholly without authority.</p>