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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 45. JUSTICE AND MUNICIPAL COURTS |
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Subchapter B. PROCEDURES FOR JUSTICE AND MUNICIPAL COURTS |
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Art. 45.038. NEW TRIAL GRANTED |
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(a) Not later than the 10th day after the date that the judgment is entered, a justice or judge may, for good cause shown, grant the defendant a new trial, whenever the justice or judge considers that justice has not been done the defendant in the trial of the case. (b) If a motion for a new trial is not granted before the 11th day after the date that the judgment is entered, the motion shall be considered denied. |
| Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.C.C.P. art. 45.44 and amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1545, Sec. 36, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. |