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Tex. Penal Code § 3.01 — Definition

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

Part of Chapter 3: MULTIPLE PROSECUTIONS, Texas Penal Code.

Full text of Tex. Penal Code § 3.01

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. Penal Code § 3.01Primary source, current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called 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.

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