When a defendant is indicted for more than one (1) offense of the same class or grade, at the same term of the court, the clerk shall issue but one (1) capias to the same county, which shall specify on its face the number of cases for which the defendant or defendants are indicted, at […]
Upon arrest made on a capias, if the offense is bailable, bail may be taken in the manner prescribed in chapter 11, part 1 of this title. After a defendant is committed to jail under a capias, if the offense is bailable, the defendant may be discharged upon giving bail as prescribed by chapter 11, […]
If served by an officer not of the county to which it is returnable, the return may be made by depositing the capias in any post office, sealed up, directed to the clerk of the court at the courthouse of the originating county with the title of the case endorsed on the envelope and the […]
Any sheriff failing to execute the capias, from want of due diligence, commits a Class C misdemeanor. Code 1858, § 5112; Shan., § 7075; Code 1932, § 11619; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-1912; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
