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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 31A.051 — Clerk's duties on change of venue

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

Part of Chapter 31A: CHANGE OF VENUE, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

Full text of Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 31A.051

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. 31A.051Primary source, current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

If a court orders a change of venue in a criminal case, the clerk of the court in which the prosecution is pending shall prepare and transmit to the clerk of the court to which the venue is changed: (1) a certified copy of the court's order directing the change of venue; (2) a certified copy of the defendant's bail bond or personal bond, if any; (3) the original papers in the case; and (4) a certificate of the transmitting clerk under that clerk's official seal that the papers described by Subdivision (3) are all the papers on file in the case in the court in which the prosecution is pending.

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