2010 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 25 - Fees of Officers
40-25-127 - Taxing of costs on abandonment of prosecution.
40-25-127. Taxing of costs on abandonment of prosecution.
If any person commences a criminal prosecution against any individual, either by warrant from a judge of the general sessions court, or otherwise, and shall afterwards willfully abandon the criminal prosecution, the court having jurisdiction of the cause shall have power to tax the prosecutor with the costs.
[Acts 1871, ch. 19, § 1; Shan., § 7613; Code 1932, § 12241; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3329.]
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