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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 27.05

DEFENDANT'S SPECIAL PLEA

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Epifanio G. Alvarez v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections (1976)

Most recently applied in State v. Houth (November 1992)

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

A defendant's only special plea is that he has already been prosecuted for the same or a different offense arising out of the same criminal episode that was or should have been consolidated into one trial, and that the former prosecution:

(1) resulted in acquittal;

(2) resulted in conviction;

(3) was improperly terminated; or

(4) was terminated by a final order or judgment for the defendant that has not been reversed, set aside, or vacated and that necessarily required a determination inconsistent with a fact that must be established to secure conviction in the subsequent prosecution.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.