• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure

Texas Criminal Procedure

You are here: Home / Art. 21.21. REQUISITES OF AN INFORMATION

Art. 21.21. REQUISITES OF AN INFORMATION

An information is sufficient if it has the following requisites:

1. It shall commence, “In the name and by authority of the State of Texas”;

2. That it appear to have been presented in a court having jurisdiction of the offense set forth;

3. That it appear to have been presented by the proper officer;

4. That it contain the name of the accused, or state that his name is unknown and give a reasonably accurate description of him;

5. It must appear that the place where the offense is charged to have been committed is within the jurisdiction of the court where the information is filed;

6. That the time mentioned be some date anterior to the filing of the information, and that the offense does not appear to be barred by limitation;

7. That the offense be set forth in plain and intelligible words;

8. That it conclude, “Against the peace and dignity of the State”; and

9. It must be signed by the district or county attorney, officially.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.

 

ART. 21.01. | ART. 21.011. | ART. 21.02. | ART. 21.03. | ART. 21.04. | ART. 21.05. | ART. 21.06. | ART. 21.07. | ART. 21.08. | ART. 21.09. | ART. 21.10. | ART. 21.11. | ART. 21.12. | ART. 21.13. | ART. 21.14. | ART. 21.15. | ART. 21.16. | ART. 21.17. | ART. 21.18. | ART. 21.19. | ART. 21.20. |  ART. 21.22. | ART. 21.23. | ART. 21.24. | ART. 21.25. | ART. 21.26. | ART. 21.27. | ART. 21.28. | ART. 21.29. | ART. 21.30. | ART. 21.31.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Art. 62.002. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER
  • Art. 56A.253. PAYMENT OF COSTS RELATED TO TESTIMONY
  • Art. 62.001. DEFINITIONS

Recent Comments

    Archives

    • May 2021
    • April 2021

    Categories

    • Uncategorized

    Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org

    Site updated June 11, 2021.