38-5-114 - Witnesses may be bound over. - Tennessee Statutes

38-5-114. Witnesses may be bound over.

The coroner shall also require all material witnesses to enter into an undertaking to appear at such court, if in session, or at the next succeeding term, and may require security for such undertaking, and, for this purpose, the coroner is vested with all the powers of a court of general sessions in state cases.

[Code 1858, § 5310; Shan., § 7288; Code 1932, § 11889; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 38-414.]