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Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure · February 6, 2026 edition

Rule 23 — Nunc Pro Tunc Proceedings in Criminal Cases

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23.1.  Judgment and Sentence
Unless the trial court has granted a new trial or
arrested the judgment, or unless the defendant has
appealed, a failure to render judgment and pronounce
sentence may be corrected at any time by the court's
doing so.
23.2.  Credit on Sentence
When sentence is pronounced, the trial court must
give the defendant credit on that sentence for:
(a) all time the defendant has been confined
since the time when judgment and sentence
should have been entered and pronounced;
and
(b) all   time   between   the   defendant's   arrest
and confinement to the time when judgment
and sentence should have been entered and
pronounced.

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Comment to 1997 change: This is former Rule 36.
The rule is amended without substantive change.