Tex. Penal Code § 3.01 · Chapter 3. MULTIPLE PROSECUTIONS
DEFINITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter, "criminal episode" means the commission of two or more offenses, regardless of whether the harm is directed toward or inflicted upon more than one person or item of property, under the following circumstances:
(1) the offenses are committed pursuant to the same transaction or pursuant to two or more transactions that are connected or constitute a common scheme or plan; or
(2) the offenses are the repeated commission of the same or similar offenses.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 387, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.3.htm
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Cited by 9 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Penal Code § 3.01. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 45A.504DIVERSION ELIGIBILITY.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 55A.151CONVICTION OR POTENTIAL PROSECUTION ARISING FROM SAME CRIMINAL EPISODE.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.101DEFINITION.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.151DEFINITION.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.201DEFINITION.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.251DEFINITION.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 552.1315EXCEPTION: CONFIDENTIALITY OF CERTAIN CRIME VICTIM RECORDS.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 810.003CERTAIN ELECTED OFFICIALS INELIGIBLE FOR RETIREMENT ANNUITY.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 810.004CERTAIN CORRECTIONS EMPLOYEES INELIGIBLE FOR RETIREMENT ANNUITY.Printed as Section 3.01, Penal Code
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