Moliere v. State

(1) filing a complaint or information;(2) docketing the case;(3) taxing costs against the defendant;(4) issuing original writs and subpoenas;(5) swearing in and impaneling a jury;(6) receiving and recording the verdict;(7) filing each paper entered in the case; and(8) swearing in witnesses in the case.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 102.005.

Appellant concedes that "[t]here is no question that the foregoing services provided by the clerk are legitimate criminal justice purposes." Appellant argues that, like the prosecutor's fee, the district clerk's fee is unconstitutional because revenue from the…