Indigent person — Defined
Acts 1989, ch. 588, § 1; 1991, ch. 345, § 1; T.C.A. § 8-14-201.
For the purposes of this part, an “indigent person” is one who does not possess sufficient means to pay reasonable compensation for the services of a competent attorney:
(1) In any criminal prosecution or juvenile delinquency proceeding involving a possible deprivation of liberty; or
(2) In any habeas corpus or other post-conviction proceeding.
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.