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2022 Texas Statutes
Code of Criminal Procedure
Title 1 - Code of Criminal Procedure
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Article 1.11. Acquittal a Bar
Universal Citation: TX Code Crim Pro art 1.11 (2022)
An acquittal of the defendant exempts him from a second trial or a second prosecution for the same offense, however irregular the proceedings may have been; but if the defendant shall have been acquitted upon trial in a court having no jurisdiction of the offense, he may be prosecuted again in a court having jurisdiction.
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.
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