Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure Title 1, Chapter 20 - Duties And Powers Of The Grand Jury

• Texas Article 20.01 - Grand Jury Room
  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...
• Texas Article 20.011 - Who May Be Present In Grand Jury Room
  (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;...
• Texas Article 20.012 - Recording Of Certain Testimony
  (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...
• Texas Article 20.02 - Proceedings Secret
  (a) The proceedings of the grand jury shall be secret. (b) A grand juror, bailiff, interpreter, stenographer or person operating an electronic recording device, person...
• Texas Article 20.03 - Attorney Representing State Entitled To Appear
  "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...
• Texas Article 20.04 - Attorney May Examine Witnesses
  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...
• Texas Article 20.05 - May Send For Attorney
  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...
• Texas Article 20.06 - Advice From Court
  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...
• Texas Article 20.07 - Foreman Shall Preside
  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...
• Texas Article 20.08 - Adjournments
  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...
• Texas Article 20.09 - Duties Of Grand Jury
  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...
• Texas Article 20.10 - Attorney Or Foreman May Issue Process
  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...
• Texas Article 20.11 - Out-of-county Witnesses
  Art. 20.11. OUT-OF-COUNTY WITNESSES. Sec. 1. The foreman or the attorney representing the State may, upon written application to the district court stating the name...
• Texas Article 20.12 - Attachment In Vacation
  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...
• Texas Article 20.13 - Execution Of Process
  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...
• Texas Article 20.14 - Evasion Of Process
  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...
• Texas Article 20.15 - When Witness Refuses To Testify
  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...
• Texas Article 20.151 - Certain Testimony By Video Teleconferencing
  (a) With the consent of the foreman of the grand jury and the attorney representing the state, a peace officer summoned to testify before the...
• Texas Article 20.16 - Oaths To Witnesses
  (a) The following oath shall be administered by the foreman, or under the foreman's direction, to each witness before being interrogated: "You solemnly swear that...
• Texas Article 20.17 - How Suspect Or Accused Questioned
  (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,...
• Texas Article 20.18 - How Witness Questioned
  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...
• Texas Article 20.19 - Grand Jury Shall Vote
  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...
• Texas Article 20.20 - Indictment Prepared
  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,...
• Texas Article 20.21 - Indictment Presented
  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...
• Texas Article 20.22 - Presentment Entered Of Record
  (a) The fact of a presentment of indictment by a grand jury shall be entered in the record of the court, if the defendant is...

Last modified: September 28, 2016