Cooke County Court at Law — Procedures for Criminal Class C Appeals

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026AppealsCooke County Court at Law Procedures for Criminal Class C Appeals (www.co.cooke.tx.us/upload/page/3093/docs/CCAL_ProceduresForCriminalClassCAppeals.pdf; custody 2026-09-06).

Summary

The Cooke County Court at Law's procedure for criminal Class C appeals: no arraignment or pretrial, a monthly status-conference docket with mandatory attendance, and how a guilty plea or a trial date is handled.

Applies to

Applies to criminal Class C appeals in the Cooke County Court at Law.

Source of truth

In a criminal Class C appeal to the Cooke County Court at Law there is no arraignment or pretrial. The Status Conference docket is the last Friday of each month at 9:00 a.m., and attendance is mandatory for the defendant and the attorney of record unless the case is resolved before the docket by plea bargain or dismissal. A guilty plea is entered by signed plea paperwork and payment in full, and a

Official source: Cooke County Courts — www.co.cooke.tx.us (court website)
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Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the county-site document (read in full). Court-specific CCL Class C appeals procedure; judge-joined to Townsend. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 692420c27a2b..., 1 pages) replaces the earlier 449-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 1 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (2/2) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 692420c27a2b..., 1 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; text matched the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]

Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 2 — Justice Court Appeal Rules (Apr. 2026) & Repair-and-Remedy Appeals

The Justice Court Appeal Rules sheet posted by JP Precinct 1 Place 2 (April 2026 edition, captured from the court's own page): the TRCP 506.1 appeal-perfection requirements from justice court to the County Courts at Law — bond amounts and the 21-day window, filing fees, and the inability-to-pay alternative; the composition also carries the court's Repair & Remedy appeal sheet (Rule 509.8): 21-day written notice of appeal, enforcement stayed on timely notice with no bond required, appellant pays county-court costs, the $64 justice-court appeal fee, and the County Clerk's 20-day fee window.

High confidence· verified August 28, 2026Dallas County, JP Precinct 1 Place 2, Justice Court Appeal Rules (Apr. 2026 ed.), Tex. R. Civ. P. 506.1

AppealsSeventh Administrative Judicial Region

Seventh Administrative Judicial Region of Texas — Rules for the Appeal of a Trial Court's Disapproval of or Failure to Act on a Request for Payment of Court Appointed Attorney's Fees (20 days after a disapproval order; 80 days after an unanswered request)

The Presiding Judge's procedure for court-appointed attorneys' fee appeals under Code of Criminal Procedure art. 26.05: the attorney files a motion with the Presiding Judge of the Seventh Region within twenty (20) days of the trial court's order disapproving the fee, or within eighty (80) days of submitting the request if the trial court fails to act, stating the listed case and billing details and attaching the trial court's order and the county's fee schedule; the Presiding Judge abates ruling for ten days while the trial court may enter a revised payment order; a contested matter is noticed within five days and the trial court files written findings (Appendix A); otherwise the Presiding Judge rules under art. 26.05(c) by an order in the form of Appendix B, and the county pays the approved amount within 45 days.

High confidence· verified September 25, 2026Rules for the Appeal of a Trial Court's Disapproval of or Failure to Act on a Request for Payment of Court Appointed Attorney's Fees, Seventh Administrative Judicial Region of Texas; posted on the region page (txcourts.gov/7ajr/), fetched 2026-09-24.

AppealsFifth Administrative Judicial Region

Fifth Administrative Judicial Region of Texas — Rules for the Appeal of a Trial Court's Disapproval of or Failure to Act on a Request for Payment of Court Appointed Attorney's Fees (20 days after a disapproval order; 80 days after an unanswered request)

The presiding judge's procedures for court-appointed attorneys' fee appeals under Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 26.05: the attorney files a motion with the Presiding Judge of the Fifth Region within twenty (20) days of the trial court's order disapproving the fee, or within eighty (80) days of submitting the request if the trial court fails to act; the trial judge may respond and resolve the matter, and if no resolution is noticed within twenty (20) days of the motion the Presiding Judge rules under art. 26.05; the county pays the approved amount within 45 days under art. 26.05(c).

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Rules for the Appeal of a Trial Court's Disapproval of or Failure to Act on a Request for Payment of Court Appointed Attorney's Fees, Before the Presiding Judge of the Fifth Administrative Judicial Region of Texas (undated; posted at www.txcourts.gov/5ajr/ as media/1437064).

AppealsDallas County · Judge Thomas G. Jones

Justice Court, Precinct 1, Place 1 — Justice Court Appeals and Bond Instructions (Hon. Thomas G. Jones)

Justice Court Precinct 1, Place 1's posted appeal instructions (Hon. Thomas G. Jones): appeals to the County Court at Law where the amount in controversy exceeds $250, the Rule 506.1 bond regime (21-day deadline; defendant's bond at twice the judgment with approved sureties; plaintiff's $500 bond), the $64 justice-court appeal filing fee with the County Clerk's 21-day fee requirement, and the statement-of-inability alternative with its 7-day contest window.

High confidence· verified August 28, 2026Dallas County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, Justice Court Appeals (Appeal Bond Cover Sheet)

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