TDCAA's 2001 Jury Charge Bank was written by John Davis (El Paso County DA's Office) and Gail McConnell (Montgomery County DA's Office). The 2003 & 2005 Jury Charge Bank was written by Gail MConnell (Montgomery County DA’s Office), Doug Arnold (Williamson County DA’s Office), Kim Schaefer & Lisa Smith (Dallas County DA’s Office). [6]

The Jury Charge Bank is a series of Microsoft Word documents with suggested language and editor's notes for all Penal Code offenses (excluding Class C offenses), for Controlled Substances Act offenses, and for selected offenses found in the Transportation Code and Code of Criminal Procedure. There are also a few punishment charges included. The documents can be found by moving through the expandable headings for each code. Download the documents to your own computer, and then edit the jury charge bank draft carefully so that your final charge includes the information required for your specific case.

Jury Charges are updated every two years in line with legislative changes. The base year we are using is 2001, meaning only changes made after 2001 will be reflected in the 2003 and 2005 folders. To ensure that the charge you are looking for is up to date, always begin looking for your charge in 2005 and work backwards. For example, if you are looking for Penal Code Section 31.11 Tampering with Identification Numbers, begin with the 2005 folder. If there is no jury charge in that year, then check the 2003 folder. If, in the end, you can only find your charge in the 2001 folder, then no changes have been made since 2001 and that is the charge you should use. While, we do our best to keep the documents up to date, the user is responsible to exercise independent legal judgment when using these suggested charges as a guide in the creation of any specific charge

Editor's notes and options are included in most documents. Be sure to read carefully for language choices that you will have to make in your final version.