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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE |
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Title 1. CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE |
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Chapter 20. DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE GRAND JURY |
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Art. 20.15. WHEN WITNESS REFUSES TO TESTIFY |
| When a witness, brought in any manner before a grand jury, refuses to testify, such fact shall be made known to the attorney representing the State or to the court; and the court may compel the witness to answer the question, if it appear to be a proper one, by imposing a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and by committing the party to jail until he is willing to testify. |
| Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722. |