When a defendant is sentenced to death, no date shall be set for the execution of sentence until after the receipt by the clerk of the trial court of the mandate of affirmance of the court of criminal appeals.
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 42.04
SENTENCE WHEN APPEAL IS TAKEN
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722
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