Texas · Texas Code of Criminal Procedure
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. § 49.17: EVIDENCE.A justice of the peace shall preserve all tangible evidence that the justice accumulates in the course of an inquest that tends to show the real cause of death or identify the person who caused the death
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