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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.32

PRESUMPTION OF DEATH

Added by Acts 1969, 61st Leg., p. 1034, ch. 337, Sec. 1, eff

(a) Upon introduction and admission into evidence of a valid certificate of death wherein the time of death of the decedent has been entered by a licensed physician, a presumption exists that death occurred at the time stated in the certificate of death.

(b) A presumption existing pursuant to Section (a) of this Article is sufficient to support a finding as to time of death but may be rebutted through a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that death occurred at some other time.

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