Kemp v. State

In Kemp v. State, 846 S.W.2d 289, 305 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992), the trial judge issued an arrest warrant for the defendant and presided over pretrial evidentiary hearings. This Court stated that "the mere fact that a trial judge issued a defendant's search or arrest warrant, alone, does not establish bias against that defendant in a subsequent proceeding" because judges routinely performs these duties. Id., at 306. The Court said that the test to establish bias is whether "a reasonable man, knowing all the circumstances involved, would harbor doubts as to the impartiality of the trial judge." Id., at 305.