Lampasas County Criminal Docket Searches
Felony settings land in the 27th District Court. Begin with the county's District Court docket index. The index splits felony lists from civil lists. Each entry links to a PDF for one date. There is no free-text box that searches every Lampasas County criminal court docket at once. So match the date on your notice first, then open the felony PDF. Check the court heading near the top. Check the status label too, before you rely on anything in it. The county tags lists as UPDATED, CANCELED, or SPECIAL SETTING. The cause number is your strongest key. The PDF may not answer every question. The statewide re:SearchTX portal can fill gaps through its Cases and Hearings searches, where Lampasas data is available. Coverage there varies by court, record type, and public security level.
- Identify the court and decide whether the matter is felony, county misdemeanor, JP, municipal, or federal.
- Open the matching county felony or County Court date index and check its latest status label.
- Match the cause number, court date, judge, setting, and time without copying private personal data.
- Try re:SearchTX with the cause number, party name, filing date, court, or hearing filters.
- Ask the responsible clerk for the named docket sheet, order, or other document if the index is not enough.
Lampasas County Criminal Docket Status
Think of the Lampasas County criminal docket index as a live calendar bulletin rather than a fixed record. UPDATED means the county replaced or revised a publication. CANCELED means the setting will not go forward as posted. SPECIAL SETTING points to scheduling handled outside a normal docket call. None of these labels settles guilt, dismissal, or sentence. A PDF you saved can go stale. The index keeps changing. Revisit the source page close to the hearing date.
UPDATED marks a revised county docket publication. CANCELED means the setting will not occur, and SPECIAL SETTING flags a court date set on its own. Read Disposition, the result or status field, together with the order and the event history.
For a question about a setting, the official 27th District Court page routes Lampasas matters to coordinator Dee Ann Crawford at 512-556-8271 extension 308. The published calendar itself warns that dates can change.
Criminal Dockets: What They Show
A local felony sheet opens with the court, the date, and the judge. Rows below tie scheduling data to identifiers, counsel fields, charge details, and the recorded event. Trust the cause number over a name. It uses a format unique to the filed case. Names repeat. An associated-case field may point to a linked proceeding. Treat it as a cross-reference, not a duplicate and not a finding.
| Case Number | The court identifier, best preserved exactly as printed, such as cause number shown on notice. |
|---|---|
| Dates | Docket date, indictment date, court date, setting time, and event date or time may appear separately. |
| Setting | The purpose of the scheduled appearance, not necessarily the final trial date. |
| Case Fields | Associated case, bond, district attorney, defense attorney, bondsman, and offense fields. |
| Result Fields | Disposition and narrative must be read together and checked against the filed order. |
A charge line, bond amount, or indictment date is not a conviction. A blank disposition field is not proof of dismissal either. The full story may sit in later entries or in a signed order held by the District Clerk.
Lampasas County Criminal Docket Fields
Each column answers a different question. The indictment date marks when a grand-jury indictment entered the case history. The offense field prints the charge as filed. Bond is a release or security field. Disposition covers outcome or status, and the narrative may explain the dated event. Mixing them up invites a false conclusion, above all in a case with several settings. Read left to right, then compare the row with later events. Confirm the cause number and any associated cause. Note whether the listed court date was updated. Ask the clerk for the judgment or signed order before treating the disposition label as the whole story, and keep public copies free of a defendant's birth date, address, victim details, witness data, or other sensitive information.
Criminal Case Stages on the Docket
A Lampasas County felony docket can list several settings before a case ends. Filing opens the court record. An indictment may then show up as its own dated field. Arraignment deals with the charge and the plea. Pretrial settings cover motions, discovery, scheduling, or negotiation. When the case gets that far, a plea or trial setting follows, and disposition and sentence enter the record through later events and orders.
Docket flow: Filing › Indictment › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
Treat that sequence as a reading aid, not a promise that every Lampasas County criminal case will show each step in order. A reset can add a setting. A special setting changes scheduling, and a canceled date may get replaced later. Always check the newest docket and the filed order.
Lampasas County Criminal Docket Workload
The 2023 OCA district activity report adds annual context for the Lampasas County criminal docket. It is an aggregate court report. It is not a live name-search tool or a forecast for one case.
The same reported year breaks out juvenile activity separately: ten pending at the start, nine added, eleven disposed, and eight pending at the end. Those totals describe workload only. They do not open restricted case details or create a public juvenile docket search.
Lampasas County Criminal Docket Courts
Felony dockets run through the 27th District Court and the District Clerk. Constitutional County Court matters, including county-level misdemeanors within its jurisdiction, route through the County Court docket page and the County Clerk. Fine-only Class C and traffic-type cases may fall to JP1, JP2/3, or JP4. City ordinance and city-issued Class C matters stay with the Lampasas, Kempner, or Lometa municipal clerk.
| Court level | Criminal docket route |
|---|---|
| 27th District Court | District Clerk and dated felony PDFs |
| Constitutional County Court | County Clerk and County Court docket index |
| Justice courts | The specific precinct clerk, forms, payment, and copy route |
| Municipal courts | The issuing city’s court portal or clerk |
A city address on a ticket tells you little on its own. Go by the issuing agency and the court printed on the notice. Federal charges are a different track entirely. They run through federal systems in the Western District of Texas, Austin Division. A Lampasas County PDF will not carry them. Knowing which system holds the case saves you a dead-end docket search.
Requesting Lampasas County Criminal Dockets
Need a specific 27th District Court criminal docket sheet or document? Call the District Clerk. Visit at 409 South Pecan Street, Suite 204, Lampasas, Texas 76550. Phone 512-556-8271, fax 512-556-9463, or email districtclerk@co.lampasas.tx.us. Hours run 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closing noon to 1:00 p.m. When you write, name the court. Add the cause number, the document, the date range, the copy type, and how you want it delivered. Settle fees, redaction, certification, payment, and turnaround with the office before any money changes hands. Mail and the counter both work. A quick call or email can confirm the right route. A county open-records request will not override the access rules that govern court case files. Keep email strictly administrative, too. The clerk will not forward improper private communications about a pending case.
Access Rules for Criminal Dockets
A posted Lampasas County criminal court docket is a calendar product, not the full file. Sealed matters, juvenile records, protected identifiers, and confidential filings may be left out or redacted. So a blank online result proves nothing. It can simply reflect a security setting. It can point to an old paper record, or to a restriction that law or a court order requires.
Key access rules:
Texas Government Code § 552.0035 recognizes that judicial access is governed by Supreme Court rules and other law.
The Texas judiciary access policy points to Rule of Judicial Administration 12 for judicial records other than court case records.
If the clerk denies access, ask which rule or order controls the decision. And never try to break a seal by piecing docket fields together with outside data.
Older Lampasas County Criminal Dockets
Online court records only reach back so far. The Texas State Library Lampasas inventory shows that some District Clerk criminal-minute volumes were never filmed. For an older case, a fruitless web search means very little. Ask the District Clerk first. Give the court, the rough year, the cause number if you have it, and the exact item you want. Ask whether it sits in paper, microfilm, an archive, or another office. A request that narrow beats a broad name search. It also helps staff tell a docket entry apart from a complete criminal case file.