John Layne Laporte, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court held that the State’s failure to file a notice of consolidation does not defeat the application of §3.03, that a trial court may not order consecutive sentences when offenses arise from the same criminal episode in a single criminal action, and that such an improper cumulation order is a void error that is not waived. Accordingly, the cumulation order was deleted and the Court of Appeals judgment affirmed as reformed.