The following persons are incompetent to act as jurors:
(1) Persons convicted of a felony or any other infamous offense in a court of competent jurisdiction; or
(2) Persons convicted of perjury or subornation of perjury.
Incompetent persons
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Walker v. United States (2015)
Most recently applied in Walker v. United States (September 2015)
Acts 2008, ch. 1159, § 1.
The following persons are incompetent to act as jurors:
(1) Persons convicted of a felony or any other infamous offense in a court of competent jurisdiction; or
(2) Persons convicted of perjury or subornation of perjury.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.