# State v. Crook

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · February 6, 2008 · 248 S.W.3d 172

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9611358

## Case

- **Full name:** The STATE of Texas v. James CROOK, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** February 6, 2008
- **Citations:** 248 S.W.3d 172; 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 157; 2008 WL 313626
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Cochran
- **Judges:** Hervey, Meyers, Price, Keasler, Keller, Holcomb, Johnson, Cochran, Womack
- **Cited by:** 79 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the concurrent sentence provision in Section 3.03 applies to the entire sentence, including fines
- holding that when trial court orders concurrent sentences, any assessed fines also run concurrently
- holding that when sentences are ordered to run concurrently, fines are not cumulated

## Opinion text

COCHRAN, J.,
filed a dissenting opinion in which, WOMACK, J., joined.
Time runs; money is paid. A term of imprisonment runs for a period of time; a fine is paid, either immediately or over a period of time. One term of imprisonment may run concurrently with another term of imprisonment. One fine cannot “run” concurrently with another fine. At least not until today. Before today, all fines could be paid at the same time, i.e. concurrently, but each fine had to be paid.
Never before has a $200 fine for speeding “run” with a $100 fine for simultaneously failing to wear a seat belt. One has never before paid the fine for the single most expensive traffic ticket violation and let all the others ride free. But a new day has dawned. Traffic-ticket seof-flaws may rejoice.
I respectfully dissent.

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