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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 35.13. Passing Juror For Challenge

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Art. 35.13. [613] [688-689] PASSING JUROR FOR CHALLENGE.  A 
juror in a capital case in which the state has made it known it will 
seek the death penalty, held to be qualified, shall be passed for 
acceptance or challenge first to the state and then to the 
defendant.  Challenges to jurors are either peremptory or for 
cause.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.  
Amended by Acts 1967, 60th Leg., p. 1739, ch. 659, Sec. 20, eff. 
Aug. 28, 1967.

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