Nixon v. Texas (original by judge keasler)
Annotate this CaseReginald Nixon was charged in separate indictments with the offenses of burglary of a habitation and evading arrest or detention with a vehicle. The indictments were consolidated and tried before a jury. Nixon pleaded guilty to both indictments and pleaded true to each indictment’s enhancement provisions. the jury returned punishment verdicts of seven years’ and nine years’ confinement for two charged offenses to run consecutively. The judge instructed the jury that, by law, the sentences would be served concurrently. After additional deliberations, the jury returned verdicts of sixteen years’ confinement for each charge. According to statute, however, the judge was required to accept the original verdicts and reform them in accordance with the law. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the court of appeals’ judgments and reformed the trial court’s judgments to reflect the original verdicts to be served concurrently.
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