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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Chapter 20 Duties And Powers Of The Grand JuryLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Code of Criminal Procedure > Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Chapter 20 Duties And Powers Of The Grand Jury After the grand jury is organized they shall proceed to the discharge of their duties in a suitable place which the sheriff shall prepare for ... (a) Only the following persons may be present in a grand jury room while the grand jury is conducting proceedings: (1) grand jurors; (2) bailiffs; ... (a) Questions propounded by the grand jury or the attorney representing the state to a person accused or suspected and the testimony of that person ... (a) The proceedings of the grand jury shall be secret. (b) A grand juror, bailiff, interpreter, stenographer or person operating an electronic recording device, or ... "The attorney representing the State" means the Attorney General, district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney. The attorney representing the State, is entitled to ... The attorney representing the State may examine the witnesses before the grand jury and shall advise as to the proper mode of interrogating them. No ... The grand jury may send for the attorney representing the state and ask his advice upon any matter of law or upon any question arising ... The grand jury may also seek and receive advice from the court touching any matter before them, and for this purpose, shall go into court ... The foreman shall preside over the sessions of the grand jury, and conduct its business and proceedings in an orderly manner. He may appoint one ... The grand jury shall meet and adjourn at times agreed upon by a majority of the body; but they shall not adjourn, at any one ... The grand jury shall inquire into all offenses liable to indictment of which any member may have knowledge, or of which they shall be informed ... The attorney representing the state, or the foreman, in term time or vacation, may issue a summons or attachment for any witness in the county ... Sec. 1. The foreman or the attorney representing the State may, upon written application to the district court stating the name and residence of the ... The attorney representing the state may cause an attachment for a witness to be issued, as provided in the preceding Article, either in term time ... The bailiff or other officer who receives process to be served from a grand jury shall forthwith execute the same and return it to the ... If it be made to appear satisfactorily to the court that a witness for whom an attachment has been issued to go before the grand ... When a witness, brought in any manner before a grand jury, refuses to testify, such fact shall be made known to the attorney representing the ... The following oath shall be administered by the foreman, or under his direction, to each witness before being interrogated: "You solemnly swear that you will ... (a) The grand jury, in propounding questions to the person accused or suspected, shall first state the offense with which he is suspected or accused, ... When a felony has been committed in any county within the jurisdiction of the grand jury, and the name of the offender is known or ... After all the testimony which is accessible to the grand jury shall have been given in respect to any criminal accusation, the vote shall be ... The attorney representing the State shall prepare all indictments which have been found, with as little delay as possible, and deliver them to the foreman, ... When the indictment is ready to be presented, the grand jury shall through their foreman, deliver the indictment to the judge or clerk of the ... The fact of a presentment of indictment by a grand jury shall be entered upon the minutes of the court, if the defendant is in ... Texas Lawyers
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