Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas

Statute of Limtations

Statute of Limitations

(1) no limitation:

(A) murder and manslaughter;

(B) sexual assault, if during the investigation of the offense

biological matter is collected and subjected to forensic DNA

testing and the testing results show that the matter does not match

the victim or any other person whose identity is readily

ascertained; or

(C) an offense involving leaving the scene of an accident under

Section 550.021, Transportation Code, if the accident resulted in

the death of a person;

(2) ten years from the date of the commission of the offense:

(A) theft of any estate, real, personal or mixed, by an executor,

administrator, guardian or trustee, with intent to defraud any

creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee, beneficiary or settlor

of a trust interested in such estate;

(B) theft by a public servant of government property over which he

exercises control in his official capacity;

(C) forgery or the uttering, using or passing of forged

instruments;

(D) injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual

punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04,

Penal Code;

(E) sexual assault, except as provided by Subdivision (1) or (5);

or

(F) arson;

(3) seven years from the date of the commission of the offense:

(A) misapplication of fiduciary property or property of a financial

institution;

(B) securing execution of document by deception; or

(C) a violation under Sections 153.403(22)-(39), Tax Code;

(4) five years from the date of the commission of the offense:

(A) theft, burglary, robbery;

(B) kidnapping;

(C) injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual

that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section

22.04, Penal Code; or

(D) abandoning or endangering a child;

(5) ten years from the 18th birthday of the victim of the offense:

(A) indecency with a child under Section 21.11(a)(1) or (2), Penal

Code; or

(B) except as provided by Subdivision (1), sexual assault under

Section 22.011(a)(2), Penal Code, or aggravated sexual assault

under Section 22.021(a)(1)(B), Penal Code; or

(6) three years from the date of the commission of the offense: all

other felonies.

Misdemeanors = Two years

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