Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 28.08 · Chapter 28. MOTIONS, PLEADINGS AND EXCEPTIONS
WHEN DEFENDANT IS HELD BY ORDER OF COURT.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If the motion to set aside the indictment or any exception thereto is sustained, but the court refuses to discharge the defendant, then at the expiration of ten days from the order sustaining such motions or exceptions, the defendant shall be discharged, unless in the meanwhile complaint has been made before a magistrate charging him with an offense, or unless another indictment has been presented against him for such offense.
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.28.htm
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- sha256 3183ba3939c88ae08f05392c1edc1501ba70fe16ba1bce55aaa9eb6c06ef783d
- Composed by
- 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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