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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 1.03. Objects Of This Code

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Art. 1.03. [1] [1] OBJECTS OF THIS CODE.  This Code is 
intended to embrace rules applicable to the prevention and 
prosecution of offenses against the laws of this State, and to make 
the rules of procedure in respect to the prevention and punishment 
of offenses intelligible to the officers who are to act under them, 
and to all persons whose rights are to be affected by them.  It 
seeks:
	1. To adopt measures for preventing the commission of crime;                   
	2. To exclude the offender from all hope of escape;                            
	3. To insure a trial with as little delay as is consistent 
with the ends of justice;
	4. To bring to the investigation of each offense on the trial 
all the evidence tending to produce conviction or acquittal;
	5. To insure a fair and impartial trial;  and                                  
	6. The certain execution of the sentence of the law when 
declared.           

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.             

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