2010 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 11 - Bail
Part 1 - Admission to Bail
40-11-123 - Sufficiency of sureties Evidence.
40-11-123. Sufficiency of sureties Evidence.
(a) Each of the sureties shall be worth the amount expressed in the undertaking, subject to the execution; but the court, magistrate or officer in taking bail may allow more than two (2) sureties to justify severally in amounts less than that expressed in the undertaking, if the whole qualification is equivalent to two (2) sufficient sureties.
(b) The district attorney general, or the court, magistrate or officer, may examine the sureties on oath touching their sufficiency, in any manner that the district attorney general, or the court, magistrate or officer may deem proper. The court or magistrate may also receive other testimony, either for or against the sufficiency of sureties.
[Acts 1978, ch. 506, §§ 23, 24; T.C.A., § 40-1223.]
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