Criminal Cases in Bosque County Courts
The 220th Judicial District Court is Bosque County's main felony court. The District Clerk keeps its filed pleadings, docket entries, orders, judgments, and sentences. The Bosque County Court at Law handles criminal work too, including specified transferred felony arraignments, pretrial hearings, guilty pleas, and motions to revoke or adjudicate. Justice courts and municipal courts retain their own fine-only, citation, and lower-level files. A search at one clerk does not cover every court.
The District Clerk is in Suite 209 of the Bosque County Courthouse, 110 South Main Street, Meridian, TX 76665. Call 254-435-2334, email d_clerk@bosquecounty.us, or mail P.O. Box 674, Meridian, TX 76665. Posted hours are Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The official District Clerk page provides the current contact and record links.
The clerk's official page shows the office Bosque County readers use for felony case records.
This source helps confirm the custodian before a reader pays for a search or copy.
Bosque Criminal Court Jurisdiction
A court name is more useful than the arresting officer's badge. A felony indictment normally points to the 220th District Court and District Clerk. A transferred proceeding may appear in County Court at Law. A Clifton, Meridian, or Valley Mills citation can remain with the municipal court, while a DPS or sheriff citation may belong to the justice court shown on the ticket. Calling the exact court printed on a citation or notice avoids a fruitless search.
| Case type | Likely custodian | Best starting detail |
|---|---|---|
| Felony filing | Bosque District Clerk | Cause number or full name and birth date |
| Transferred felony proceeding | County Court at Law | Court named on the setting |
| Justice-court matter | JP1 or JP2 | Precinct and citation number |
| City citation | Named municipal court | Issuing agency and citation number |
The Texas Judicial Branch court directory can help identify the official Bosque County court contact. It does not replace the clerk's own file.
How to Search Bosque County Case Records
Bosque County offers public docket PDFs, direct clerk searches, and links to paid electronic services. None is a complete free county index. Use a cause number when possible because the clerk charges $5 for a search without one. Bosque felony numbers appear as CR followed by five digits. A full name, date of birth, case year, and case type help separate people with similar names.
- Decide whether the case is felony, county, justice, or municipal.
- Check the county Document Center for a current public docket, but treat it as a calendar rather than a final outcome.
- Give the correct clerk a full name, birth date, year or type, and cause number if known.
- Name the exact pleading, order, judgment, or date needed instead of requesting an entire file without review.
- Ask for plain or certified copies and confirm the total before sending payment.
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Text | Yes for name search | Include aliases when relevant |
| Date of birth | Date or text | Requested | Helps distinguish common names |
| Case or cause number | Text | No | CR plus five digits for Bosque felony examples |
| Type and year | Description | No | Useful for older records |
| Requested document | Description | Yes for copies | State the pleading, order, or date |
Note: re:SearchTX coverage depends on participating clerks, so a blank result cannot prove that Bosque County has no case.
Bosque Cases on re:SearchTX
re:SearchTX is Texas's state-supported, fee-based case information service. It can help locate records supplied by participating clerks, but Texas does not operate one free and complete statewide trial-court database. Older records, lower courts, and records not included by a clerk may be absent. Searchers should use re:SearchTX as one channel, then confirm the filing with Bosque County's actual custodian.
The official re:SearchTX interface illustrates the electronic case-information route available to Bosque County readers.
Its convenience does not change the clerk's control of certified court records.
Three different records: A booking record proves a custody event, a court file shows the filed charge and outcome, and the DPS public search shows a narrower reported statewide conviction and deferred-adjudication slice.
What the Case File Shows
A public docket can show the case number, setting, offense, arresting agency, counsel, bond, and a short status line. It is not the whole file. Pleadings, indictments, judgments, financial ledgers, evidence records, restitution terms, and community-supervision conditions may require a targeted copy request. Public copies can redact a date of birth, protected victim data, or other personal identifiers.
| Case Number and Court | Identifies the Bosque County custodian and the CR##### file. |
|---|---|
| Charging Document | Shows the complaint, information, or grand-jury indictment actually filed. |
| Docket Entries | Lists settings, motions, deadlines, and court actions in date order. |
| Hearing Dates | Shows arraignment, pretrial, plea, competency, revocation, and sentencing settings. |
| Disposition and Judgment | States the outcome; dismissal, acquittal, deferred adjudication, and conviction mean different things. |
| Sentence and Conditions | Records punishment, custody, restitution, or community-supervision terms when public. |
For the prosecutor side of the process, the 220th Judicial District Attorney page identifies the office serving Bosque, Comanche, and Hamilton Counties.
The official office page gives context for the prosecutor responsible for many Bosque felony filings.
Charging decisions still must be read from the court file, not inferred from an arrest or agency page.
Read Bosque Criminal Dockets
The June 2026 nonjury docket contains event labels such as arraignment, plea deadline, pretrial, plea and sentencing, competency examination, motion to amend indictment, counsel withdrawal, and motion to revoke or adjudicate. Each label marks a step, not necessarily an outcome. A blank disposition box is not an acquittal. It may mean the listed setting occurred before a result was entered or that the calendar was produced before an update.
- Arraignment
- The formal stage at which the accused answers the filed charge.
- Disposition
- The result of the case, such as dismissal, acquittal, deferred adjudication, or conviction.
- Motion to revoke
- A request alleging that community-supervision terms were violated.
- No-bill
- A grand jury's decision not to return an indictment.
- Personal recognizance bond
- Release based on a promise and stated conditions rather than a surety.
Read the latest entry and the signed judgment together. A calendar line alone may not capture a reset, later plea, amended charge, or final sentence.
Stages of a Bosque County Criminal Case
Local records develop in sequence. Law enforcement creates the arrest and booking material. A magistrate handles warnings and bond. The prosecutor decides what charge to pursue, and a grand jury may consider a felony indictment. The clerk then records hearings, motions, pleas, trial events, judgment, sentence, appeal notices, and later supervision motions. Each stage can change the language shown in the file.
Case flow: Charges Filed › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
A filed charge remains an allegation until resolved. Readers tracing an event from custody into court can compare the filed case with the separate Bosque County arrest history channels, but should never substitute one record for the other.
Bosque Court Copies and Fees
Plain copies cost $1 per page. Certification adds $5 per document. When no cause number is supplied, the clerk's official instructions set a $5 search fee. The office counts pages and provides the total before payment. Regular copies may be emailed after payment, while certified copies cannot be emailed.
| Service | Amount or rule |
|---|---|
| Search without cause number | $5 per search |
| Plain copy | $1 per page |
| Certification | $5 extra per document |
| In-person payment | Exact cash accepted |
| Remote payment | Cashier's check or money order; no personal checks |
| GovPay | Visa and Mastercard, not American Express; excludes JP1, JP2, and County Clerk fees |
Since May 2022, e-filed originals live in the clerk's case-management system. Hand-delivered items are scanned where possible, while exhibits that cannot be scanned remain physically retained. Ask specifically about older or non-scannable material.
Bosque Federal Criminal Cases
Bosque County falls within the Fort Worth Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Federal cases do not appear merely because a reader searched the Bosque District Clerk. PACER is the official federal docket service. Registration is free; usage is generally $0.10 per page, many documents cap at 30 billable pages, and quarterly fees of $30 or less are waived. Sealed filings and grand-jury material remain unavailable.
The official PACER page is the correct source for a federal Bosque County criminal docket.
PACER should be used only for federal filings, not county or Texas state-court cases.
After a federal sentence, the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator searches by federal identifier or personal fields.
Custody location may help trace a sentenced federal case, but it does not supply the court's pleadings or judgment.
Case Record Access and Restrictions
Texas court records are generally obtained from the clerk, subject to sealing, confidentiality, and court access rules. The Texas Public Information Act governs many government records, while court records follow their own clerk and judicial rules. Juvenile matters, sealed files, expunged records, protected victim information, and personal identifiers may be withheld or redacted.
The public DPS product is governed by Government Code Chapter 411 and is narrower than a local court file. Texas criminal-history reporting under Chapter 66 can also lag when fingerprints or disposition reports are missing. If a Bosque County case does not appear online, contact the exact clerk and describe the record narrowly.
Note: A missing online entry can reflect coverage, timing, sealing, or the wrong court; it does not establish that no case exists.