2010 Tennessee Code
Title 38 - Prevention And Detection Of Crime
Chapter 5 - Inquests
38-5-107 - Surgeon or physician as witness.
38-5-107. Surgeon or physician as witness.
The coroner may also summon as a witness a surgeon or physician, when requested so to do by the district attorney general, to make examination of the body, including the performing of an autopsy, and give a professional opinion as to the cause of death, whose fee shall not exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and the fee shall be allowed in the bill of costs.
[Code 1858, § 5303 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 75, § 2); Shan., § 7281; Code 1932, § 11882; Acts 1943, ch. 26, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 11882; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 38-407.]
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