Acquittal A Bar

Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 1.11, under Chapter 1.

Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 1.11

Art. 1.11. ACQUITTAL A BAR. An acquittal of the defendant exempts him from a second trial or a second prosecution for the same offense, however irregular the proceedings may have been; but if the defendant shall have been acquitted upon trial in a court having no jurisdiction of the offense, he may be prosecuted again in a court having jurisdiction. Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.