§ 40-23-101 Commencement of sentence – Credit for pretrial detention and jail time pending appeal
§ 40-23-102 Defendant in custody at time of judgment
§ 40-23-103 Sheriff to commit defendant
§ 40-23-104 Sentence to workhouse for felony term – Removal by trial judge
§ 40-23-105 Felons sentenced to jail compelled to hard labor
§ 40-23-106 Notice to commissioner of convicts for penitentiary
§ 40-23-107 Safekeeping of inmates – Transfers to penitentiary
§ 40-23-108 Order specifying number of guards for removal of prisoners
§ 40-23-109 Warrant to summon aid in removal of prisoners
§ 40-23-110 Summons of additional guards
§ 40-23-111 Qualifications of guard
§ 40-23-112 Juror disqualified to act as guard
§ 40-23-113 Report by sheriff to department of correction
§ 40-23-114 Death by lethal injection – Election of electrocution – Electrocution as alternative method
§ 40-23-115 Maintenance of death chamber
§ 40-23-116 Manner of executing sentence of death – Witnesses
§ 40-23-117 Death sentence stands if not carried out at scheduled time
§ 40-23-118 Warrant for apprehension of condemned inmate
§ 40-23-119 Order of execution after arrest of condemned prisoner

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 40 > Chapter 23 - Execution of Judgment

  • Agency: means any department, division, board, bureau, commission, or other separate unit of government created by law or pursuant to law, including the legislative branch and the judicial branch. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Disposition: means preservation of the original records in whole or in part, preservation by photographic or other reproduction processes, or outright destruction of the records. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • division: means the division of records management of the department of state. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Essential records: means any public records essential to the resumption or continuation of operations, to the re-creation of the legal and financial status of government in the state or to the protection and fulfillment of obligations to citizens of the state. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Records disposition authorization: means the official document utilized by an agency head to request authority for the disposition of records. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Records management: includes records retention schedule development, essential records protection, files management and information retrieval systems, microfilm information systems, correspondence and word processing management, records center, forms management, analysis, and design, and reports and publications management. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Records officer: means an individual designated by an agency head to assume responsibility for implementation of the agency's records management program. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Temporary records: means material which can be disposed of in a short period of time as being without value in documenting the functions of an agency. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Working papers: means those records created to serve as input for final reporting documents, including electronic data processed records, and/or computer output microfilm, and those records which become obsolete immediately after agency use or publication. See Tennessee Code 10-7-301
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105