Tenn. Code § 38-5-107

Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 1069

Section 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.

T.C.A. § 38-5-107

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.