Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 24.06 · Chapter 24. SUBPOENA AND ATTACHMENT
WHAT IS DISOBEDIENCE OF A SUBPOENA.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
It shall be held that a witness refuses to obey a subpoena:
1. If he is not in attendance on the court on the day set apart for taking up the criminal docket or on any day subsequent thereto and before the final disposition or continuance of the particular case in which he is a witness;
2. If he is not in attendance at any other time named in a writ; and
3. If he refuses without legal cause to produce evidence in his possession which he has been summoned to bring with him and produce.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.24.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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