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Tex. Penal Code § 12.46

USE OF PRIOR CONVICTIONS

Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Williams v. State (1997)

Most recently applied in Williams v. State (December 2011)

Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1027, ch. 459, 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.

The use of a conviction for enhancement purposes shall not preclude the subsequent use of such conviction for enhancement purposes.

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