The officer or person executing the governor's warrant of arrest or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner may have been delivered may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in the jail of any county or city through which the prisoner may pass. The keeper of the county or city jail must receive and safely keep the prisoner until the person having charge of the prisoner is ready to proceed on the person's route, that person being chargeable with the expense of keeping.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-9-120
Confinement of prisoner en route
Known as the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act
The act spans §§ 40–40 (30 sections).
Acts 1951, ch. 240, § 12 (Williams, § 11935.12); T.C.A
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.