40-7-102 - Offense in presence of magistrate. - Tennessee Statutes

40-7-102. Offense in presence of magistrate.

When a public offense is committed in the presence of a magistrate, the magistrate may, by verbal or written order, command any person to arrest the offender, and then proceed as if the offender had been brought before the magistrate on a warrant of arrest.

[Code 1858,§ 5036; Shan.,§ 6996;Code 1932, § 11535; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-802.]