
Art. 43.23. [807] RETURN OF DIRECTOR.  When the execution of 
sentence is suspended or respited to another date, same shall be 
noted on the warrant and on the arrival of such date, the Director 
of the Department of Corrections shall proceed with such execution;  
and in case of death of any condemned person before the time for his 
execution arrives, or if he should be pardoned or his sentence 
commuted by the Governor, no execution shall be had;  but in such 
cases, as well as when the sentence is executed, the Director of the 
Department of Corrections shall return the warrant and certificate 
with a statement of any such act and his proceedings endorsed 
thereon, together with a statement showing what disposition was 
made of the dead body of the convict, to the clerk of the court in 
which the sentence was passed, who shall record the warrant and 
return in the minutes of the court.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.

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