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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 1.11. Acquittal A Bar

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Art. 1.11. [9] [20] [21] ACQUITTAL A BAR.  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, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.             

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