Whenever the governor of this state demands a person charged with a crime in this state from the chief executive of any other state, or from the chief justice or an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia authorized to receive such demand under the laws of the United States, the governor shall issue a warrant under the seal of this state, to some agent, commanding the agent to receive the person so charged if delivered to the agent and convey the person to the proper officer of the county in this state in which the offense was committed.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-9-122
Warrant to agent to return prisoner
Known as the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act
The act spans §§ 40–40 (30 sections).
Acts 1951, ch. 240, § 22 (Williams, § 11935.22); 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.