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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 11.27 — How writ may be served and returned

Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

Part of Chapter 11: HABEAS CORPUS, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

Full text of Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 11.27

Statutory text current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Texas.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 11.27Primary source, current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

The writ may be served by delivering a copy of the original to the person who is charged with having the party under restraint or in custody, and exhibiting the original, if demanded; if he refuse to receive it, he shall be informed verbally of the purport of the writ. If he refuses admittance to the person wishing to make the service, or conceals himself, a copy of the writ may be fixed upon some conspicuous part of the house where such person resides or conceals himself, or of the place where the prisoner is confined; and the person serving the writ of habeas corpus shall, in all cases, state fully, in his return, the manner and the time of the service of the writ.

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