Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.065
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.065, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 49A.065. CHEMICAL ANALYSES.
Official statutory text
(a) A justice of the peace may obtain a chemical analysis of a sample taken from a body to determine whether the death was caused, wholly or partly, by the ingestion, injection, or introduction into the body of a poison or other chemical substance. A justice may obtain a chemical analysis under this subsection from a chemist, toxicologist, pathologist, or other medical expert.
(b) A justice of the peace shall obtain a chemical analysis under Subsection (a) if requested by the physician who performed an autopsy on the body.
(c) The commissioners court shall pay a reasonable fee to a person who conducts a chemical analysis at the request of a justice of the peace.
(b) A justice of the peace shall obtain a chemical analysis under Subsection (a) if requested by the physician who performed an autopsy on the body.
(c) The commissioners court shall pay a reasonable fee to a person who conducts a chemical analysis at the request of a justice of the peace.
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