Shumaker v. State

Citations

• 10 Tex. Ct. App. 117

Syllabus

<p>Cumulative Sentences.—H, upon the conviction of th e same defendant at the same term of court for more than one offense, the punishment assessed in each conviction he confinement in the penitentiary, judgment and sentence shall be rendered and pronounced in each case as though there had been but that one conviction, but the judgment in the second or a subsequent conviction shall be that the punishment shall begin only when that adjudged in the preceding case has ceased to operate. The rule laid down in Prince v. The State, 44 Texas, 480, has been superseded by the Revised Code of Criminal Procedure, art, 800.</p>