Tennessee Statutes
§ 40-23-108 — Order specifying number of guards for removal of prisoners
Tennessee·Title 40
It is the duty of the criminal and circuit judges of this state, at the adjournment of their courts or earlier, if the number of persons convicted justify it, to make an order specifying the number of guards the sheriff shall have in conveying to the supreme court, or to the penitentiary, the person or persons convicted, in case the person so appointed for that purpose by the commissioner of correction fails to remove them as provided by law.
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Legislative History
Acts 1875, ch. 29; impl. am. Acts 1883, ch. 171, §28; impl. am. Acts 1895 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 7, § 10; impl. am. Acts 1915, ch. 20, §§ 2, 9; Shan., § 7243; impl. am. Acts 1919, ch. 39, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 42; Code 1932, § 11850; impl. am. Acts 1955, ch. 102, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3111.
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