Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 7.01 · Chapter 7. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE MAGISTRATES TO PREVENT OFFENSES
SHALL ISSUE WARRANT.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Whenever a magistrate is informed upon oath that an offense is about to be committed against the person or property of the informant, or of another, or that any person has threatened to commit an offense, the magistrate shall immediately issue a warrant for the arrest of the accused; that he may be brought before such magistrate or before some other named in the warrant.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.7.htm
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- sha256 b82f981683d1b0a1ef69032336fe701310ebbd31cbeab8fa20707abc90bf4dc4
- 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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