Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure Title 1, Chapter 43 - Execution Of Judgment

• Texas Article 43.01 - Discharging Judgment For Fine
  (a) When the sentence against an individual defendant is for fine and costs, he shall be discharged from the same: (1) when the amount thereof...
• Texas Article 43.015 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Capias" means a writ that is: (A) issued by a court having jurisdiction of a case after judgment and sentence; and...
• Texas Article 43.02 - Payable In Money
  All recognizances, bail bonds, and undertakings of any kind, whereby a party becomes bound to pay money to the State, and all fines and forfeitures...
• Texas Article 43.021 - Capias Or Capias Pro Fine In Electronic Form
  A capias or capias pro fine may be issued in electronic form. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1263 (H.B. 3060), Sec. 8,...
• Texas Article 43.03 - Payment Of Fine
  (a) If a defendant is sentenced to pay a fine or costs or both and the defendant defaults in payment, the court after a hearing...
• Texas Article 43.04 - If Defendant Is Absent
  When a judgment and sentence have been rendered against a defendant in the defendant's absence, the court may order a capias issued for the defendant's...
• Texas Article 43.05 - Capias Pro Fine Shall Recite
  (a) A capias pro fine issued for the arrest and commitment of a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor or felony, or found in contempt, the...
• Texas Article 43.06 - Capias Or Capias Pro Fine May Issue To Any County
  A capias or capias pro fine may be issued to any county in the State, and shall be executed and returned as in other cases,...
• Texas Article 43.07 - Execution For Fine And Costs
  In each case of pecuniary fine, an execution may issue for the fine and costs, though a capias pro fine was issued for the defendant;...
• Texas Article 43.08 - Further Enforcement Of Judgment
  When a defendant has been committed to jail in default of the fine and costs adjudged against him, the further enforcement of such judgment and...
• Texas Article 43.09 - Fine Discharged
  (a) When a defendant is convicted of a misdemeanor and his punishment is assessed at a pecuniary fine or is confined in a jail after...
• Texas Article 43.091 - Waiver Of Payment Of Fines And Costs For Indigent Defendants And Children
  A court may waive payment of a fine or cost imposed on a defendant who defaults in payment if the court determines that: (1) the...
• Texas Article 43.10 - Manual Labor
  Where the punishment assessed in a conviction for a misdemeanor is confinement in jail for more than one day or is only a pecuniary fine...
• Texas Article 43.101 - Voluntary Work
  (a) A defendant who is confined in county jail before trial, after conviction of a misdemeanor, or after conviction of a felony or revocation of...
• Texas Article 43.11 - Authority For Confinement
  When, by the judgment and sentence of the court, a defendant is to be confined in jail, a certified copy of such judgment and sentence...
• Texas Article 43.13 - Discharge Of Defendant
  (a) A defendant who has remained in jail the length of time required by the judgment and sentence shall be discharged. The sheriff shall return...
• Texas Article 43.131 - Immunities
  (a) An individual listed in Subsection (c) of this article and the governmental entity that the individual serves as an officer or employee are not...
• Texas Article 43.14 - Execution Of Convict: Confidential Information
  (a) Whenever the sentence of death is pronounced against a convict, the sentence shall be executed at any time after the hour of 6 p.m....
• Texas Article 43.141 - Scheduling Of Execution Date; Withdrawal; Modification
  (a) If an initial application under Article 11.071 is timely filed, the convicting court may not set an execution date before: (1) the court of...
• Texas Article 43.15 - Warrant Of Execution
  (a) Whenever any person is sentenced to death, the clerk of the court in which the sentence is pronounced shall, not later than the 10th...
• Texas Article 43.16 - Taken To Department Of Corrections
  Immediately upon the receipt of such warrant, the sheriff shall transport such condemned person to the Director of the Department of Corrections, if he has...
• Texas Article 43.17 - Visitors
  Upon the receipt of such condemned person by the Director of the Department of Corrections, the condemned person shall be confined therein until the time...
• Texas Article 43.18 - Executioner
  The director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall designate an executioner to carry out the death penalty provided by law. Acts 1965, 59th...
• Texas Article 43.19 - Place Of Execution
  The execution shall take place at a location designated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in a room arranged for that purpose. Acts 1965,...
• Texas Article 43.20 - Present At Execution
  The following persons may be present at the execution: the executioner, and such persons as may be necessary to assist him in conducting the execution;...
• Texas Article 43.21 - Escape After Sentence
  If the condemned escape after sentence and before his delivery to the Director of the Department of Corrections, and be not rearrested until after the...
• Texas Article 43.22 - Escape From Department Of Corrections
  If the condemned person escapes after his delivery to the Director of the Department of Corrections, and is not retaken before the time appointed for...
• Texas Article 43.23 - 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...
• Texas Article 43.24 - Treatment Of Condemned
  No torture, or ill treatment, or unnecessary pain, shall be inflicted upon a prisoner to be executed under the sentence of the law. Acts 1965,...
• Texas Article 43.25 - Body Of Convict
  The body of a convict who has been legally executed shall be embalmed immediately and so directed by the Director of the Department of Corrections....
• Texas Article 43.26 - Preventing Rescue
  The sheriff may, when he supposes there will be a necessity, order such number of citizens of his county, or request any military or militia...
• Texas Article 43.27 - Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission
  Art. 43.27. TIMOTHY COLE EXONERATION REVIEW COMMISSION Sec. 1. CREATION. The Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission is created. Sec. 2. COMPOSITION. (a) The commission is...

Last modified: September 28, 2016