Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 15.12. Warrant Or Complaint Must Be Under Seal

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Art. 15.12. [229] [276] [264] WARRANT OR COMPLAINT MUST BE 
UNDER SEAL.  No manager of a telegraph office shall receive and 
forward a warrant or complaint unless the same shall be certified to 
under the seal of a court of record or by a justice of the peace, 
with the certificate under seal of the district or county clerk of 
his county that he is a legally qualified justice of the peace of 
such county;  nor shall it be lawful for any magistrate to endorse a 
warrant received by telegraph, or issue a warrant upon a complaint 
received by telegraph, unless all the requirements of the law in 
relation thereto have been fully complied with.

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

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