“Indictment” defined
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Street (1988)
Most recently applied in Wine v. Wine (May 2007)
Code 1932, §§ 10750, 11622; T.C.A
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.
(1) An indictment is an accusation in writing presented by the grand jury of the county charging a person with an indictable offense.
(2) Wherever in this code “indictment” is used, it shall be taken to include presentment whenever the context so requires or will permit.
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.