Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 44.18
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 44.18, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 44.18. ORIGINAL PAPERS SENT UP.
Official statutory text
In appeals from justice and corporation courts, all the original papers in the case, together with the appeal bond, if any, and together, with a certified transcript of all the proceedings had in the case before such court shall be delivered without delay to the clerk of the court to which the appeal was taken, who shall file the same and docket the case.
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