40-14-312 - Fees for transcripts Transcripts for indigent defendants. - Tennessee Statutes

40-14-312. Fees for transcripts Transcripts for indigent defendants.

Each court reporter may charge and collect fees for transcripts at rates prescribed by the administrative director. If the defendant prays and is granted an appeal and is determined by the trial judge to be without sufficient funds to pay for the preparation of the transcript of the proceedings, the trial judge shall direct the court reporter to furnish the defendant a complete transcript of the proceedings, the fee for which shall be paid by the state of Tennessee out of money appropriated for that purpose. The reporter may require any party requesting a transcript to pay the estimated fee in advance except as to transcripts which are to be paid for by the state of Tennessee.

[Acts 1965, ch. 221, § 12; T.C.A., § 40-2040; Acts 1993, ch. 66, § 65.]