Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 34.01. Special Venire
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Art. 34.01. SPECIAL VENIRE. A "special venire" is a writ
issued in a capital case by order of the district court, commanding
the sheriff to summon either verbally or by mail such a number of
persons, not less than 50, as the court may order, to appear before
the court on a day named in the writ from whom the jury for the trial
of such case is to be selected. Where as many as one hundred jurors
have been summoned in such county for regular service for the week
in which such capital case is set for trial, the judge of the court
having jurisdiction of a capital case in which a motion for a
special venire has been made, shall grant or refuse such motion for
a special venire, and upon such refusal require the case to be tried
by regular jurors summoned for service in such county for the week
in which such capital case is set for trial and such additional
talesmen as may be summoned by the sheriff upon order of the court
as provided in Article 34.02 of this Code, but the clerk of such
court shall furnish the defendant or his counsel a list of the
persons summoned as provided in Article 34.04.
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.
Article: 33.03 33.04 33.05 33.06 33.07 33.08 33.09 34.01 34.02 34.03 34.04 34.05 35.01 35.02 35.03
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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