The primary pleading in a criminal action on the part of the State is the indictment or information.
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 27.01
INDICTMENT OR INFORMATION
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff
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