Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 29.05 · Chapter 29. CONTINUANCE
SUBSEQUENT MOTION BY STATE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
On any subsequent motion for a continuance by the State, for the want of a witness, the motion, in addition to the requisites in the preceding Article, must show:
1. The facts which the applicant expects to establish by the witness, and it must appear to the court that they are material;
2. That the applicant expects to be able to procure the attendance of the witness at the next term of the court; and
3. That the testimony cannot be procured from any other source during the present term of the court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.29.htm
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