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For the purpose of citation, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure or Texas Criminal Procedure Code may be abbreviated to Tex Crim Proc [5] or Tex Crim Pro [6] or Tx Crim Proc [7] or Tx Crim Pro [8] or Tx Code Crim Proc [9] or Tx Code Crim Pro [10] or Tex Code Crim Proc [11] or Tex Code Crim Pro [12] or Code Crim Proc Tex [13] or Code Crim Pro Tex.
The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.
Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108 (1964), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that "[a]lthough an affidavit supporting a search warrant may be based on hearsay information and need not reflect the direct personal observations of the affiant, the magistrate must be informed of some of the underlying circumstances relied on by the person providing the information and some ...
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Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a Mexican national charged with fatally shooting five people in a Texas home, after a grand jury indicted him for capital murder, the district ...
Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas. The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in ...
In addition to the constitutional guarantee, various state and federal statutes confer a more specific right to a speedy trial. In New York, the prosecution must be "ready for trial" within six months on all felonies except murder, or the charges are dismissed by action of law without regard to the merits of the case.
On the morning of July 23, 1999, the Swisher County Sheriff's Department, in cooperation with local authorities, conducted a collective apprehension and arrest of 47 citizens in Tulia, Texas. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Thirty-eight of the arrested were African American, [ 1 ] which amounted to approximately 10 to 20 percent of Tulia's African American ...