40-9-122 - Warrant to agent to return prisoner. - Tennessee Statutes

40-9-122. Warrant to agent to return prisoner.

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.

[Acts 1951, ch. 240, § 22 (Williams, § 11935.22); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-1024.]