Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 7.07
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 7.07, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 7.07. SURETY MAY EXONERATE HIMSELF.
Official statutory text
A surety upon any such bond may, at any time before a breach thereof, exonerate himself from the obligations of the same by delivering to any magistrate of the county where such bond was taken, the person of the defendant; and such magistrate shall in that case again require of the defendant bond, with other security in the same amount as the first bond; and the same proceeding shall be had as in the first instance, but the one year's time shall commence to run from the date of the first order.
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