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Hopkins County Court at Law - Procedures for Waiving Arraignment with Counsel (filed June 13, 2023)

High confidence· verified September 19, 2026Case ManagementProcedures for Waiving Arraignment with Counsel, Hopkins County Court at Law, filed June 13, 2023. TOPICs registration 1431 (Hopkins County).

Summary

Procedure of the Hopkins County Court at Law for waiving arraignment with counsel: the attorney e-mails the court coordinator for a reset date (pre-trial dockets are held on Thursdays at 9:00 a.m.); the reset form must be signed by the defendant; the completed reset form and a Motion to Waive Arraignment are e-filed - the court has no preferred waiver form - and all motions must be submitted before the day of court.

Applies to

Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Hopkins County > County Court at Law. Criminal cases in which the defendant is represented by counsel.

Requirement

CLAY HARRISON Presiding Judge Hopkins County Court at Law Phone (903) 438-4004 Fax (903) 438-4107 118 Church Street Sulphur Springs, Texas 75482 Procedures for Waiving Arraignment with Counsel 1. Attorney contacts court coordinator for a reset date a. Email CCL@hopkinscountytx.org b. Pre-trial dockets are held on Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. 2. Complete reset form a. Reset form MUST be signed by defendant b. Reset form can be downloaded here 3. E-file completed reset form and Motion to Waive Arraignment a. The court does not have a preferred waiver form. b. All motions must be submitted BEFORE the day of court [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD, HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS, 9:22 am, Jun 13 2023, TRACY SMITH, COUNTY CLERK]

Source of truth

CLAY HARRISON Presiding Judge Hopkins County Court at Law Phone (903) 438-4004 Fax (903) 438-4107 118 Church Street Sulphur Springs, Texas 75482 Procedures for Waiving Arraignment with Counsel 1. Attorney contacts court coordinator for a reset date a. Email CCL@hopkinscountytx.org b. Pre-trial dockets are held on Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. 2. Complete reset form a. Reset form MUST be signed by defend

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 24, 2026
Effective date: June 13, 2023
Last verified: September 19, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr10-p2-2026-09-19

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/1431.pdf (application/pdf, 422343 bytes, sha256 823bd8f8ddde61b4aa2f1cabe0abc30a544a165103ef803fa1ad02354eed4d82; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: digital text layer normalised (whitespace, hyphenation, page furniture) and every page checked against the rendered PDF; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. One-page PDF with a digital text layer, compared with the rendered page; the file stamp is typed from the image. The word "here" in item 2(b) is a link label on the original page. The coordinator's e-mail address is the court's published contact. The sheet is published on the letterhead of Clay Harrison, the court's judge when it was issued; the judge has since changed, the registration stands, and no judge join is made. Also posted on the county's own website: https://www.hopkinscountytx.org/upload/page/3013/2023/waiver_of_arraignment__procedure.pdf (412,008 bytes, sha256 439abf91673f14b3...; the digital original of the same sheet, without the County Clerk's file stamp that the registered copy carries - read 2026-09-20).