Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 22
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 22, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 22. FUGITIVES FROM THIS STATE; DUTY OF GOVERNOR.
Official statutory text
Whenever the Governor of this State shall demand a person charged with crime or with escaping from confinement or breaking the terms of his bail, probation or parole in this State, from the Executive Authority of any other State, or from the Chief Justice or an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia authorized to receive such demand under the laws of the United States, he shall issue a warrant under the state seal, to some agent, commanding him to receive the person so charged if delivered to him and convey him to the proper officer of the county in this State in which the offense was committed, or in which the prosecution for such offense is then pending.
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