Cooke County Court at Law — Criminal Case Procedures

Source of truth

Arraignment in the Cooke County Court at Law is on the first and third Tuesdays in the County Court at Law courtroom; a pro se defendant must appear, while an attorney may waive arraignment by returning the Waiver of Arraignment and Setting Order before the setting. At the Consultation Setting (formerly the pretrial), attorneys can no longer waive appearance, and attendance of the defendant and co

Official source

Cooke County Courts — www.co.cooke.tx.us (court website)

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Healthy · checked October 6, 2026

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September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the county-site document (read in full). Court-specific CCL criminal divisional instructions; judge-joined to Townsend (current posting on the CCL page). [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 a27101a8e99a..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 625-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 2 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (3/3) 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 a27101a8e99a..., 2 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]