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An administrative standing order of the District Courts of Coryell County (52nd and 440th Judicial Districts) governing grand-jury impanelment and the random assignment and division of criminal cases between the two district courts by the defendant's SID number.
Applies to all criminal cases filed with the District Clerk of Coryell County. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
IN THE DISTRICT COURTS OF CORYELL COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE STANDING ORDER ASSIGNMENT OF COURTS AND DIVISION OF CRIMINAL CASES This order is an administrative standing order of the District Courts of Coryell County that applies in all criminal cases filed with the District Clerk of Coryell County. Subject to, the Rules of Court of 52nd Judicial District of Texas Coryell County, the 52nd Judicial District Court and the 440th Judicial District Court of Coryell County approve this standing order on the assignment of criminal cases. Therefore, IT IS ORDERED: Each District Court may impanel a Grand Jury during each of the Courts’ terms (January and July). Each Grand Jury shall serve a term as ordered by the empaneling Court. All returned indictments by the Grand Jury shall be randomly assigned among the District Courts. All causes filed with the District Clerk by indictments returned by the Grand Jury or information filed by the prosecution authority will be randomly assigned and distributed among the District Courts based on the newest SID# assigned to the defendant to be determined at the time the case is submitted to the prosecution authority and defendants whose final number in the SID sequence of numbers is 1,2,3,4,5 shall be assigned to the 52nd District Court and defendants whose final number in the SID sequence of numbers is 6,7,8,9,0 shall be assigned to the 440th District Court, subject to the following: (1) any subsequent cause will be assigned the same Court with a defendant’s pending cause. (2) causes with Co-Defendants, involving the same transaction, assigned to the 440th District Court. (3) T.D.C.J. cases assigned to the 440th District Court. All charging instruments shall include the defendant’s SID number, date of birth, TRN number, complaint number, statute and citation, assigned prosecutor, retained or appointed defense attorney, and the designated Court. Nothing herein will prevent judges from exchanging benches, sitting for another judge, or transferring causes between themselves, when allowed by law. THIS STANDING ORDER REGARDING CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS, FILINGS AND ASSIGNMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON THE 1ST DAY OF APRIL 2018. [signature] TRENT D. FARRELL, 52ND DISTRICT JUDGE [signature] GRANT KINSEY, 440TH DISTRICT JUDGE [One-page scanned order typed from the page image (its text layer is OCR). Ordinal suffixes printed as superscripts ("52nd", "440th", "1ST") are given in line. Source wording is kept as printed, including "Subject to, the Rules of Court" and "the empaneling Court" beside "impanel". Bold and underlining are not reproduced.]
IN THE DISTRICT COURTS OF CORYELL COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE STANDING ORDER ASSIGNMENT OF COURTS AND DIVISION OF CRIMINAL CASES This order is an administrative standing order of the District Courts of Coryell County that applies in all criminal cases filed with the District Clerk of Coryell County. Subject to, the Rules of Court of 52nd Judicial District of Texas Coryell County, the 52nd Judicial Distr
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read). County-wide order of the Coryell County District Courts (52nd/440th); bound to Coryell County. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-23 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 a77177d63af1..., 1 page(s)) typed from the page images, its text layer used only as a check; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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