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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 37.14 — Acquittal of higher offense as jeopardy

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

Part of Chapter 37: THE VERDICT, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

Full text of Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 37.14

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. 37.14Primary source, current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

If a defendant, prosecuted for an offense which includes within it lesser offenses, be convicted of an offense lower than that for which he is indicted, and a new trial be granted him, or the judgment be arrested for any cause other than the want of jurisdiction, the verdict upon the first trial shall be considered an acquittal of the higher offense; but he may, upon a second trial, be convicted of the same offense of which he was before convicted, or any other inferior thereto.

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