The judges of the supreme court, within the first week of each term, or as soon thereafter as the fact comes to their knowledge, shall certify to the governor all cases upon the docket in which any of them are incompetent to sit, upon the receipt of which certificate the governor shall appoint and commission the requisite number of competent lawyers to dispose of the causes.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 17-2-102
Incompetency of supreme court judges
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Holder v. Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission (1996)
Most recently applied in Holder v. Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission (October 1996)
Code 1858, § 3919 (deriv
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