41-4-124 - Allowance of expenses. - Tennessee Statutes

41-4-124. Allowance of expenses.

When the court orders the prisoner to be carried to the jail of another county for safekeeping for want of a sufficient jail in the county where the case is pending, it may make a reasonable allowance to the sheriff and necessary guard, including expenses for conveying the prisoner to the jail so ordered by the judge.

[Code 1858, § 5433 (deriv. Acts 1839-1840, ch. 103); Shan., § 7444; Code 1932, § 12052; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1128.]