Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-17-206 (2024)
Penalty for failure to obey summons
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If the witness who is summoned as provided in §§ 40-17-203 - 40-17-205, after being paid or tendered, by some properly authorized person, compensation in accordance with title 24, chapter 4 for expenses incurred for each day the witness is required to travel and attend as a witness, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, the witness shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this state.
Acts 1939, ch. 148, § 3; C. Supp. 1950, § 11979.3; Acts 1971, ch. 119, § 1; 1979, ch. 392, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-2434.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2016–2016 · leading case: Putnam v. State, 789 S.E.2d 594 (S.C. Ct. App. 2016).
Putnam v. State, 789 S.E.2d 594 (S.C. Ct. App. 2016). “§ 19-9-100 (2014); Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-17-206 (2012). We find trial counsel rendered deficient performance by failing to secure the Children’s attendance at trial and no probative evidence supports the PCR court’s contrary finding.”
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