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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 21.14. Perjury And Aggravated Perjury

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Art. 21.14. [408] [465] [453] PERJURY AND AGGRAVATED 
PERJURY.  (a) An indictment for perjury or aggravated perjury need 
not charge the precise language of the false statement, but may 
state the substance of the same, and no such indictment shall be 
held insufficient on account of any variance which does not affect 
the subject matter or general import of such false statement;  and 
it is not necessary in such indictment to set forth the pleadings, 
records or proceeding with which the false statement is connected, 
nor the commission or authority of the court or person before whom 
the false statement was made;  but it is sufficient to state the 
name of the court or public servant by whom the oath was 
administered with the allegation of the falsity of the matter on 
which the perjury or aggravated perjury is assigned.
	(b)  If an individual is charged with aggravated perjury 
before a grand jury, the indictment may not be entered by the grand 
jury before which the false statement was alleged to have been made.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.  
Amended by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 968, ch. 399, Sec. 2(A), eff. 
Jan. 1, 1974.

Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1065, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 
1989.      

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