Section 38.32 - Presumption of Death(a) Upon introduction and admission into evidence of a valid certificate of death wherein the time of death of the decedent has been entered by a licensed physician, a presumption exists that death occurred at the time stated in the certificate of death.(b) A presumption existing pursuant to Section (a) of this Article is sufficient to support a finding as to time of death but may be rebutted through a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that death occurred at some other time.Tex. Code Crim. Proc. § 38.32
Added by Acts 1969, 61st Leg., p. 1034, ch. 337, Sec. 1, eff. 5/27/1969.