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12 GENERAL LAWS.
TWENTY-EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT-REORGANIZATION
OF-AMENDING ACT TO INCLUDE KENEDY COUNTY.
H. B. No. 45.] CHAPTER 8.
An Act to amend Chapter 46 of the General Laws of the State of Texas
passed at the Regular Session of the Thirty-fifth Legislature being an Act
to reorganize the Twenty-eighth Judicial District of the State of Texas,
and to create a Criminal District Court for the counties of Nueces, Kleberg,
Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron and to prescribe the jurisdiction
thereof as a criminal court; and also conferring upon said court the power
to try and determine divorce causes, and causes for the collection of delinquent
taxes, -to fix the time for holding the terms thereof; to provide
for the appointment and election of the judge thereof; to provide for the
Sheriff, Clerk and Attorney thereof, and their election; to limit and conform
thereto the jurisdiction of the court of the Twenty-eighth Judicial
District of the State of Texas; to conform and validate all writs, processes,
bonds, recognizances and drawing of petit and grand juries of such
courts to the changes made herein; and to define the jurisdiction of the
District Court of the Twenty-eighth Judicial District of Texas; to repeal
all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 46 of the General Laws of the State of
Texas passed at the Regular Session of the Thirty-fifth Legislature,
be amended so as to hereafter read as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby created and established for the
counties of Nueces, Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron a Criminal
District Court, which shall have and exercise all of the criminal jurisdiction
now vested in and exercised by the District Court of the
Twenty-eighth Judicial District of Texas and said Criminal District
Court shall try and determine all causes for divorce between husband
and wife and adjudicate property rights in connection therewith in
said counties, and try and determine all causes for the collection of
delinquent taxes and the enforcement of liens for the collection of
same. All appeals from the judgments of said courts shall be to the
Court of Criminal Appeals, except appeals in divorce cases and suits
for the collection of delinquent taxes, which shall be to the Court
of Civil Appeals under the same rules and regulations as now or may
hereafter be provided by law for the appeals in criminal cases from
district courts.
SEC. 2. From and after the time when this Act shall take effect, the
District Court of the Twenty-eighth Judicial District composed of the
counties of Nueces, Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron shall cease
to have and exercise any criminal jurisdiction in either of said
counties and shall cease to have and exercise any jurisdiction of
divorce cases in either of said counties, and shall cease to have and
exercise any jurisdiction of suits for the collection of any delinquent
taxes or the enforcement of liens for same; provided, however, that
if there shall be any criminal case on trial in the TWenty-eighth
Judicial District Court when this Act shall go into effect, such District
Court shall retain jurisdiction of such case until such trial shall
be concluded and until appeal therein shall be perfected if an appeal
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1921 [Volume 21], book, 1921; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14933/m1/20/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .