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Tex. Penal Code § 3.02 — Consolidation and joinder of prosecutions
Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)
Part of Chapter 3: MULTIPLE PROSECUTIONS, Texas Penal Code.
Full text of Tex. Penal Code § 3.02
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.
(a) A defendant may be prosecuted in a single criminal action for all offenses arising out of the same criminal episode. (b) When a single criminal action is based on more than one charging instrument within the jurisdiction of the trial court, the state shall file written notice of the action not less than 30 days prior to the trial. (c) If a judgment of guilt is reversed, set aside, or vacated, and a new trial ordered, the state may not prosecute in a single criminal action in the new trial any offense not joined in the former prosecution unless evidence to establish probable guilt for that offense was not known to the appropriate prosecuting official at the time the first prosecution commenced.
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