Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 50.04
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 50.04, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 50.04. WITNESSES BOUND OVER.
Official statutory text
If the jury finds that any building has been unlawfully set on fire or has been attempted so to be, the justice holding such inquest shall bind over the witnesses to appear and testify before the next grand jury of the county in which such offense was committed.
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