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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 46B.054. Uncontested Incompetency

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Art. 46B.054. UNCONTESTED INCOMPETENCY.  If the court finds 
that evidence exists to support a finding of incompetency to stand 
trial and the court and the counsel for each party agree that the 
defendant is incompetent to stand trial, the court shall proceed in 
the same manner as if a jury had been impaneled and had found the 
defendant incompetent to stand trial.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 35, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.  
Amended by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 324, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 
2005.

Last modified: August 11, 2007