Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.074
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.074, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 49A.074. PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE.
Official statutory text
A justice of the peace shall:
(1) preserve all tangible evidence that the justice obtains in the course of an inquest that tends to identify the person who caused the death that is the subject of the inquest or show the actual cause of death; and
(2) deposit the evidence described by Subdivision (1) with the appropriate law enforcement agency to be stored in the agency's property room for safekeeping.
(1) preserve all tangible evidence that the justice obtains in the course of an inquest that tends to identify the person who caused the death that is the subject of the inquest or show the actual cause of death; and
(2) deposit the evidence described by Subdivision (1) with the appropriate law enforcement agency to be stored in the agency's property room for safekeeping.
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