Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1943 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Honorable Ben Y. Thorpe
COlllhT httclney
Lhxwry county
stiyaer,'Texas
Your letter of roe ticg our opinion
e following from
a misaemean0r
ena either p d 'guilty' in
two separate mala dermaant
im eonrltted th oaiwb, oan
Ld sentsnoes
t provide8 how ilnes
bat I a0 not rina
lnarleduaaemr
t whore 8ame is
de to Rrtiole 774 of the 'k&m of
exIa8, reading, a8 foll0wS:
W:;hen the came defendant has been convicted
in two or mOre cases, and the punlmhaunt aaaeseed
in each ease ie c0urinem3t in the penftent~ary
or the jail for a term of lmprisonmnt, jud&Wt
and sentence shall be pronounosd in eaoh cane in
the sme manner asl if there had been but one Oon-
viotion, exospt that in the disaretion or the
Honorable Ber F1 Thorpe, Psgs 2
oourt, the judgment in the seoond and subsequent
aonviotlons may either be that the punitint
shall beginwhan the judgment and seatanoo in
the preoedlug aonvicrtlon has oeased to operate,
or that the puniebmont shall run ooaourrently with
the other case or oa8ss. and santsne8 and exoou-
tion shall baraooordln&. (Aots 1889, p. 81
AOtd 1919, p* 25.1”
The above ertiole has been held to apply to mlr-
demeanoreas well as to isltmiem. 3x parte I&via, 71 TPX,
Cr. R. 598, 160 :;. IY. 459; Z&xprts Banks, 41 Tax. Cr. R.
201, 59 5. E. 688~ 12 Tex. Jur. 821, 906. bl9, *Orlnlnal
Law”.
Xmuever, in the Banks oaae, mugma, it ia polnttd
out that the statute rerex# only t0 oaaa8 in uhloh lmpbon-
mast is a part of the punkhmeatt it ha8 no relerenos to
l3.Llea. 3’11~s are independaat OS ewh other, and the paymant
of one is not the aatlefaotlon oi the of&or. For the lateat
expression ~8 the Oourt of Crldoml Appmlr 680 Ihxpert*
61111am8,199 ‘fox. Or, R. 116, 109 9. VP. (21 171.
A# YOUhave stated pur qubstlon, 10 ia answered
that where a defandant is oonviotod of two or 81~4 miodem8aa-
ox% wherein tha puDiahseat is by flna only they aann& be
titi6ma 00a0~0m.y. li the punhhamtr as fire6 In the
sentenueask by lmprleoameat in Jail, the aourt’a order
judgment and aanteneonlurtaffimmtively sh0w the eourts~rr
Intention to m&a the punialuaoatr aumulativ8( othomis@ they
will be Qnmsrrent, li?xpkrto Dav5.0, eupnb But lf in 621*
W8e tha abfanaanfi ia mareljr fined while in aaothar hi8 pun-
lrhnmnt 18 imprlsonamtt, the aatisfaotion may not be ann@tW-
rently aoaompliehea. 8.0 Rx parts W~lliamY, aupra.
Truatlog that the above iully answers your quemtlon,
we ara
Yoor6 very trulr