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Stokes v. State

Citations

  • 688 S.W.2d 539
  • 1985 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1380

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  • holding that an appellate court uses a common sense interpretation of the order, as well as reading the order \as a whole and the phraseology therein construed together\
  • where written sentence did not contain jail time credit orally pronounced in open court, sentence was reformed to give appellant jail credit pursuant to oral pronouncement
  • where written sentence did not contain jail time credit orally pronounced in open court, sentence was reformed to give appellant jail credit pursuant to oral pronouncement
  • order contained only the cause number and the court of the prior conviction
  • discretion to cumulate sentences is given to the trial court
  • discretion to cumulate sentences is given to the trial court

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Judges: Onion, Clinton

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