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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 17.30. Shall Certify Proceedings

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Art. 17.30. [296] [347] [335] SHALL CERTIFY 
PROCEEDINGS.  The magistrate, before whom an examination has taken 
place upon a criminal accusation, shall certify to all the 
proceedings had before him, as well as where he discharges, holds to 
bail or commits, and transmit them, sealed up, to the court before 
which the defendant may be tried, writing his name across the seals 
of the envelope.  The voluntary statement of the defendant, the 
testimony, bail bonds, and every other proceeding in the case, 
shall be thus delivered to the clerk of the proper court, without 
delay.

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

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