Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure Title 1, Chapter 19 - Organization Of The Grand Jury

• Texas Article 19.01 - Selection And Summons Of Prospective Grand Jurors
  The district judge shall direct that 20 to 125 prospective grand jurors be selected and summoned, with return on summons, in the same manner as...
• Texas Article 19.07 - Extension Beyond Term Of Period For Which Grand Jurors Shall Sit
  If prior to the expiration of the term for which the grand jury was impaneled, it is made to appear by a declaration of the...
• Texas Article 19.08 - Qualifications
  No person shall be selected or serve as a grand juror who does not possess the following qualifications: 1. The person must be a citizen...
• Texas Article 19.16 - Absent Juror Fined
  A juror legally summoned, failing to attend without a reasonable excuse, may, by order of the court entered on the record, be fined not less...
• Texas Article 19.18 - If Less Than Sixteen Attend
  When less than sixteen of those summoned to serve as grand jurors are found to be in attendance and qualified to so serve, the court...
• Texas Article 19.19 - Jurors To Attend Forthwith
  The jurors provided for in Article 19.18 shall be summoned in person to attend before the court forthwith. Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p....
• Texas Article 19.20 - To Summon Qualified Persons
  On directing the sheriff to summon grand jurors, the court shall instruct the sheriff that the sheriff must not summon any person to serve as...
• Texas Article 19.21 - To Test Qualifications
  When as many as fourteen persons summoned to serve as grand jurors are in attendance upon the court, it shall proceed to test their qualifications...
• Texas Article 19.22 - Interrogated
  Each person who is presented to serve as a grand juror shall, before being impaneled, be interrogated on oath by the court or under his...
• Texas Article 19.23 - Mode Of Test
  In trying the qualifications of any person to serve as a grand juror, that person shall be asked: 1. Are you a citizen of this...
• Texas Article 19.24 - Qualified Juror Accepted
  When, by the answer of the person, it appears to the court that he is a qualified juror, he shall be accepted as such, unless...
• Texas Article 19.25 - Excuses From Service
  Any person summoned who does not possess the requisite qualifications shall be excused by the court from serving. The following qualified persons may be excused...
• Texas Article 19.26 - Jury Impaneled
  (a) When at least sixteen qualified jurors are found to be present, the court shall select twelve fair and impartial persons to serve as grand...
• Texas Article 19.27 - Any Person May Challenge
  Before the grand jury has been impaneled, any person may challenge the array of jurors or any person presented as a grand juror. In no...
• Texas Article 19.28 - "Array"
  By the "array" of grand jurors is meant the whole body of persons summoned to serve as such before they have been impaneled. Acts 1965,...
• Texas Article 19.29 - "Impaneled" And "Panel"
  A grand juror is said to be "impaneled" after his qualifications have been tried and he has been sworn. By "panel" is meant the whole...
• Texas Article 19.30 - Challenge To "Array"
  A challenge to the "array" shall be made in writing for these causes only: 1. That those summoned as grand jurors are not in fact...
• Texas Article 19.31 - Challenge To Juror
  (a) A challenge to a particular grand juror may be made orally for any of the following causes: 1. That the juror is insane; 2....
• Texas Article 19.315 - Recusal Of Juror
  (a) If, during the course of a juror's service on the grand jury, the juror determines that the juror could be subject to a valid...
• Texas Article 19.32 - Summarily Decided
  When a challenge to the array or to any individual has been made, the court shall hear proof and decide in a summary manner whether...
• Texas Article 19.33 - Other Jurors Summoned
  The court shall order another grand jury to be summoned if the challenge to the array be sustained, or order the panel to be completed...
• Texas Article 19.34 - Oath Of Grand Jurors
  When the grand jury is completed, the court shall appoint one of the number foreman; and the following oath shall be administered by the court,...
• Texas Article 19.35 - To Instruct Jury
  The court shall instruct the grand jury as to their duty. Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.
• Texas Article 19.36 - Bailiffs Appointed
  The court and the district attorney may each appoint one or more bailiffs to attend upon the grand jury, and at the time of appointment,...
• Texas Article 19.37 - Bailiff's Duties
  A bailiff is to obey the instructions of the foreman, to summon all witnesses, and generally, to perform all such duties as the foreman may...
• Texas Article 19.38 - Bailiff Violating Duty
  No bailiff shall take part in the discussions or deliberations of the grand jury nor be present when they are discussing or voting upon a...
• Texas Article 19.39 - Another Foreman Appointed
  If the foreman of the grand jury is from any cause absent or unable or disqualified to act, the court shall appoint in his place...
• Texas Article 19.40 - Quorum
  Nine members shall be a quorum for the purpose of discharging any duty or exercising any right properly belonging to the grand jury. Acts 1965,...
• Texas Article 19.41 - Reassembled
  A grand jury discharged by the court for the term may be reassembled by the court at any time during the term. Acts 1965, 59th...
• Texas Article 19.42 - Personal Information About Grand Jurors
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), information collected by the court, court personnel, or prosecuting attorney during the grand jury selection process about a...

Last modified: September 28, 2016