How to Search Criminal Dockets
Concho County criminal dockets do not all sit in one office. Begin with the court level. Felonies go to the 119th District Court, with records passing through Amber Hall's District Clerk function. The constitutional County Court takes county-level misdemeanors. Class C and traffic cases may land in the countywide Justice of the Peace court. They may also land in Eden Municipal Court when the citation was issued within Eden.
Two online routes exist. The county clerk page links to LGS Online Records Search and says digitized county records update nightly; LGS offers a guest index and image preview, but Concho County does not present it as a complete criminal case-event register. re:SearchTX is a second route for available Texas case information and electronic filings, though public criminal coverage and document availability vary.
- Identify the likely court from the offense level and issuing agency.
- Try LGS guest access, choosing the county office and an available record type, or search re:SearchTX by name, style, or number.
- Compare the court, parties, filing date, and charge in the matching result.
- Read the newest setting and disposition entries, not merely the first date shown.
- Call the clerk or coordinator for a missing case, live setting, or certified copy.
Missing Concho Criminal Dockets
A failed LGS search proves nothing. The elected office chooses which record types appear online, the case may not be digitized, or an index row may show up without a public image. Sealed, expunged, juvenile, or otherwise restricted matters can be absent or limited too. re:SearchTX criminal coverage has its own gaps, so treat every empty screen as a prompt to call the clerk, not as a final answer.
If nothing appears: Try a shorter name or partial number, select Concho County as the location, and ask the clerk whether the file is paper, microfilm, restricted, or held by another court.
When you call the clerk, have three things ready: an approximate filing year, the defendant name, and a charge clue. Never guess at a case-number suffix. Concho County has published no local criminal cause-number pattern or code sheet, so a guessed format can hide the very result you need.
What a Criminal Docket Shows
A Concho County criminal docket identifies the case and court. It names the State and the defendant. It also lists counsel and summarizes charges in filing order. Many entries also cover bond activity, hearing settings, pleas, orders, trial events, sentencing, and later appeal or revocation activity. Read it as a timeline. For the controlling terms, the filed judgment or order carries more weight than any short index label.
| Case number | The clerk-assigned cause number; no verified Concho County sample format is published. |
|---|---|
| Charge | Offense title, statute, degree or class, count, and amended-charge notation. |
| Setting | Date, time, type, court, judge, courtroom, and reset status when supplied. |
| Plea and order | The entered response and a separate judicial ruling or signed document. |
| Disposition | Dismissal, conviction, deferred adjudication, acquittal, or another outcome. |
Financial fields may show costs or fines. Document links can stay restricted even when the index is public. When precise terms matter, pull the underlying indictment, judgment, sentence, or dismissal order itself.
Concho Criminal Docket Terms
Concho County has posted no abbreviation key of its own. The terms here are common Texas criminal docket shorthand. For a specific case, let the combined clerk confirm how an abbreviation is actually being used.
- Arraignment
- A formal appearance addressing the charge, plea, counsel, and identity.
- Docket call
- A calendar session used to assess readiness or scheduling.
- Capias
- Process directing an officer to arrest or bring a person before court.
- MTR
- A motion-to-revoke matter involving an alleged supervision violation.
- Bond forfeiture
- An action alleging failure to meet an appearance or bond condition.
"Filed" and "set" do not mean "granted" or "decided." A motion is a request, not a ruling. Read it beside its later order, and treat an old setting marked reset or continued as history rather than the current court date.
Stages on a Criminal Docket
The Concho County criminal docket begins when a complaint, information, indictment, or transferred charging document is filed. Magistrate or bond activity may come next. An arraignment records the formal appearance, and pretrial entries can reflect discovery, motions, readiness, plea talks, or requests to reset a setting.
Docket flow: Filing › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
New entries can keep coming after the judgment line. Revocation proceedings, bond forfeiture, abstracts, notices of appeal, appellate transfers, or later warrants all generate docket activity. "Closed" or "disposed" often marks administrative status only, so check the final substantive event and the signed judgment.
Confirm Concho Criminal Settings
For a live felony setting, the 119th District Court coordinator is the strongest direct fallback. That administrative office sits at 112 W. Beauregard in San Angelo. The official court page lists 325-659-6570. Do not confuse it with that counter. Amber Hall's combined records counter sits at 152 N. Roberts in Paint Rock. The coordinator answers current district scheduling questions; the clerk maintains the filed record.
Before you dial, have the cause number and defendant name ready. Ask for the current date and time. Ask for the courtroom or remote instructions, the setting type, and whether a prior entry was reset. A county YouTube stream may make a proceeding viewable. A stream is never setting notice.
For a county misdemeanor, start with the combined clerk at 325-732-4322. For a JP Class C matter, call the Concho County Justice of the Peace at 325-732-4706. Eden settings stay with the city court.
Which Court Holds Criminal Dockets
The 119th District Court holds felony dockets. County-level misdemeanors belong to the constitutional Concho County Court. Judge Scott Spoonts's countywide Justice of the Peace handles Class C and traffic matters within its authority, while Eden Municipal Court handles municipal ordinance and state-law Class C cases arising within Eden.
| Court | Criminal scope | First contact |
|---|---|---|
| 119th District Court | Felony cases | Clerk for records; coordinator for settings |
| Concho County Court | County misdemeanors | Combined clerk |
| Justice of the Peace | Class C and traffic | JP office |
| Eden Municipal Court | Eden ordinance and Class C | City court or clerk |
Searching the wrong level is the most common cause of an empty result. Compare the cause number, court, charge, and filing date before requesting documents.
Certified Concho Criminal Records
A screen view is one thing; a certified record is another. An online preview of a Concho County criminal docket is not a certified copy. For the real thing, contact the Concho County and District Clerk. Ask for the docket sheet, the judgment, an order, the charging instrument, or any other filed paper. Give the cause number and case style. Say which document you want, or at least its date. Say whether you need it plain or certified. Add your delivery preference and contact details.
Call first before you mail any payment. Concho County publishes no criminal request form of its own and no complete local fee sheet. The clerk has to quote the actual cost. State law does set the district clerk's copy and certification charges. Only the clerk can apply them to your request. Transcripts are a different animal. The official court reporter handles those, so ask that office about availability and price.
Public Access and Sealed Criminal Dockets
A public Concho County criminal docket can carry a lot. Identifiers, charges, filings, settings, and outcomes all appear in the ordinary course. Still, access has hard limits. Juvenile justice information is restricted by law. Personal identifiers get redacted, and sealed or expunged material can be withheld or removed entirely. Sometimes an index entry stays visible while the underlying image does not.
Key rules:
Texas Family Code Chapter 58 restricts juvenile justice information and records, subject to stated exceptions.
Texas Government Code section 552.0035 places judiciary information under court rules and applicable law.
Texas court rules govern court procedures that can affect public access.
If the clerk denies access, ask which rule, statute, or order controls the decision, and whether a redacted copy is an option. Authorized parties often have rights that the general public lacks.
Read Concho Criminal Dispositions
A disposition date tells you an outcome was recorded. It does not tell you why. "Dismissed" alone says nothing about the reason; only the order itself does that. Deferred adjudication is supervision where final adjudication is put off under the court's order, while a conviction reflects a judgment of guilt. An acquittal and a dismissal are two different things.
Watch the later docket entries as well. A notice of appeal can shift review to an appellate court, and a revocation matter can add activity tied to supervision. Read the full Concho County criminal docket in sequence. Then get the judgment, dismissal, sentence, or revocation order straight from the clerk.