Contents of warrant
Known as the Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act
The act spans §§ 40–40 (38 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Ferrante (2008)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Robert Jason Burdick (December 2012)
Code 1858, §§ 5026, 5027; Shan., §§ 6985, 6986; Code 1932, §§ 11524, 11525; 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) The warrant should specify the name of the defendant, but if it is unknown to the magistrate, the defendant may be designated in the warrant by any name.
(2) It should also state the offense either by name, or so that it can be clearly inferred.
(3) It should also show, in some part, the county in which issued, the name and initials of the magistrate in office.
(4) The warrant shall include a copy of the affidavit of complaint.
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.