Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 28.05
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 28.05, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 28.05. QUASHING INDICTMENT IN FELONY.
Official statutory text
If the motion to set aside or the exception to the indictment in cases of felony be sustained, the defendant shall not therefor be discharged, but may immediately be recommitted by order of the court, upon motion of the State's attorney or without motion; and proceedings may afterward be had against him as if no prosecution had ever been commenced.
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