Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Martin
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided November 24, 1999No. 00073-98PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWomack, J.
in which MEYERS, PRICE, HOLLAND and JOHNSON joined.
Code of Criminal Procedure Article 32.01 requires the State to indict a defendant by the next term of the grand jury after the one in which the defendant was arrested or show good cause for the failure to do so. The State argues that delay in receiving offense reports from the police department constitutes good cause. Today we adopt a totality-of-circumstances test to determine whether the State has shown good cause.
Officers of the Luling Police Department arrested the appellant for forgery on June 24, 1996. She was released on bail on July…
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- State v. Condran, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)1997
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