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An Act supplemental to and amendatory of an act to establish a Code of Criminal procedure for the State of Texas 1857 228 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0086 and id is 1 raw text is: McCuisiton, for 1280 Acres; Headright Certificate No. 44,
issued by the same Board, on the 6th November, 1841, to
Laban Menifec, for 1280 Acres; Headright Certificate No.
40, issued by the same Board, October 4th, 1841, to Thomas
Webb, for 1280 Acres; Donation Certificate No. 307, issued
by George W. Hockley, Secretary of War, 9th June, 1838,
for 640 Acres; Headright Certificate No. 387, issued by the
Board of Land Commissioners, of Montgomery       County,
December 13, 1849, for 640 Acres, to Nancy Brantly, by
her husband Wyatt Anderson ; Headright Certificate No. 51,
issued to Win. Perry, by the Board of Land Commissioners
of Cass County, for 320 Acres, dated 11th day of January.
1848.
SEc. 2. That this Act take effect from and after its pas-
sage.
Approved, February 15, 1858.
CHAPTER 151.
AN A UP supplemental to and amendatory of  an act to es-
tabllsh a Code of Criminal procedure for the State of
Texas, Approved August 26, 1856.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State
of Texas, That the following articles of the above recited act,
commonly known as the Code of Criminal Procedure, are hereby
so amended, as that the same shall hereafter read as follows,
that is to say :
CHAPTER 1.
Article 1 shall hereafter read thus
It is hereby declared that this Code is intended to embrace
rules applicable to the prevention and prosecution of offencea
against the laws of this State, and to make the rules of pro-
ceeding in respect to the prevention and punishment of offences
intelligible to the officers who are to act under them, and to
all persons whose rights are to be affected by, them.

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