Notwithstanding subsection 1 of this section or any other provision of law to the contrary, in any criminal prosecution under chapter 565, 566 or 568, involving an alleged victim under the age of eighteen, a spouse shall be a competent witness against a defendant spouse, and no spousal privilege as set forth in subsection 1 of this section or any ...
After discussing his decision to become a Texas land empresario with his son, Stephen, Moses Austin set out on the 800 mile ride to San Antonio de Bexar. Upon entering the old Spanish town in the fall of 1820, Austin found an atmosphere rife with ill feelings toward all Anglo-Americans.
It was the empresario's responsibility to survey the land and then issue title to that land. The empresario grants extended northwestward from the Gulf Coast Plain of Texas across the Balcones Escarpment and well into the Great Plains. Most empresarios agreed to recruit 100 families within a six-year span.hen they had settled at least 100 families within their colonial grant, thus fulfilling their contract, they acquired land of their own. For every 100 families an empresario recruited and settled within Texas, the state gave him five sitios (22,140 acres) of pastureland and five labors (885 acres) of farmland.