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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 28. MOTIONS, PLEADINGS AND EXCEPTIONS |
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Art. 28.13. FORMER ACQUITTAL OR CONVICTION |
| A former judgment of acquittal or conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction shall be a bar to any further prosecution for the same offense, but shall not bar a prosecution for any higher grade of offense over which said court had not jurisdiction, unless such judgment was had upon indictment or information, in which case the prosecution shall be barred for all grades of the offense. |
| Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966. |