Art. 47.06 PROPERTY SOLD

Here's a plain English summary:

When someone is convicted of illegally taking property, the owner has 30 days after the conviction to come forward and claim it. If nobody claims the property within that 30-day window, the court doesn't just hold onto it forever.

Instead, the property gets handled the same way as unclaimed items described in Article 18.17 of the same code. That other rule spells out the steps for selling or disposing of property nobody has claimed. So this rule basically points to that process and says to use it here too.

For someone involved in a case like this, the main takeaway is simple: if you believe property taken during a crime belongs to you, don't wait too long to speak up. Once that 30-day period passes, the property may be sold or disposed of under the standard process, and getting it back afterward becomes much harder.