Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 24.16. Application For Out-County Witness

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Art. 24.16. [475] [539] APPLICATION FOR OUT-COUNTY 
WITNESS.  Where, in misdemeanor cases in which confinement in jail 
is a permissible punishment, or in felony cases, a witness resides 
out of the county in which the prosecution is pending, the State or 
the defendant shall be entitled, either in term-time or in 
vacation, to a subpoena to compel the attendance of such witness on 
application to the proper clerk or magistrate.  Such application 
shall be in the manner and form as provided in Article 24.03.  
Witnesses in such misdemeanor cases shall be compensated in the 
same manner as in felony cases.  This Article shall not apply to 
more than one character witness in a misdemeanor case.

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

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