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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 26.08. If Defendant Suggests Different Name

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Art. 26.08. IF DEFENDANT SUGGESTS DIFFERENT NAME.  If the 
defendant, or his counsel for him, suggests that he bears some name 
different from that stated in the indictment, the same shall be 
noted upon the minutes of the court, the indictment corrected by 
inserting therein the name of the defendant as suggested by himself 
or his counsel for him, the style of the case changed so as to give 
his true name, and the cause proceed as if the true name had been 
first recited in the indictment.

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

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