KRAMER

v.

CALIFORNIA

Citator

Cited By

• Rummel v. Estelle, 587 F.2d 651 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …eans v. State, 160 Tex. Cr.R. 135, 268 S.W. 2d 133, 135 (1954), and no conviction can be used for enhancement more than one time when establishing the habitual criminal status, Carvajal v. State, 529 S.W. 2d 517, 521 (Tex.Cr.App.1975), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 926, 96 S.Ct. 1139, 47 L.Ed.2d 336 (1976); Ex Parte Montgomery, 571 S.W. 2d 182, 183 (Tex.Cr.App.1978). In practice the following events must happen before Article 63 is ever called into question: (1) A defendant must be convicted of a felony10 and mu…
• Deloney v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., 713 F.2d 1080 (5th Cir. 1983)
  …. This is incorrect. Under Texas law, prior convictions can be used only once for the purposes of enhancing punishment. Ex Parte Montgomery, 571 S.W. 2d 182, 188 (Tex.Cr.App.1978); Carvajal v. State, 529 S.W. 2d 517, (Tex.Cr.App.1975), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 926, 96 S.Ct. 1139, 47 L.Ed.2d 336 (1976). Consequently, if Deloney were convicted on the enhanced felony count, the state would be required, by law, to dismiss any prior convictions used to enhance any other charges pending against him.8 Following conv…