Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.39 · Chapter 38. EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL ACTIONS
EVIDENCE IN AN AGGREGATION PROSECUTION WITH NUMEROUS VICTIMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In trials involving an allegation of a continuing scheme of fraud or theft alleged to have been committed against a large class of victims in an aggregate amount or value, it need not be proved by direct evidence that each alleged victim did not consent or did not effectively consent to the transaction in question. It shall be sufficient if the lack of consent or effective consent to a particular transaction or transactions is proven by either direct or circumstantial evidence.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1411, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.38.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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