By Place H.B. No. 1393
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the impaneling of a new jury after a jury fails to
1-3 return a verdict.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 45.40, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Art. 45.40. MISTRIAL. A jury shall be discharged if it
1-8 fails to agree to a verdict after being kept together a reasonable
1-9 time. If there be time left on the same day, another jury may be
1-10 impaneled to try the cause, or the justice may adjourn for not more
1-11 than 30 <two> days and again impanel a jury to try such cause.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.