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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 38. EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL ACTIONS |
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Art. 38.08. DEFENDANT MAY TESTIFY |
| Any defendant in a criminal action shall be permitted to testify in his own behalf therein, but the failure of any defendant to so testify shall not be taken as a circumstance against him, nor shall the same be alluded to or commented on by counsel in the cause. |
| Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722. |