This title shall be construed according to the fair import of its terms, including reference to judicial decisions and common law interpretations, to promote justice, and effect the objectives of the criminal code.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-104
Construction of criminal code
Applied in 35 court decisions — leading case State v. Flemming (2000)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Antonio Henderson (October 2017)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.