41-2-113 - Sentence to workhouse in lieu of jail.
41-2-113. Sentence to workhouse in lieu of jail.
In all cases where a person is by law liable to be imprisoned in the county jail for safekeeping or punishment, confinement in the workhouse, if one is provided, may, in the discretion of the court, be substituted.
[Code 1858, § 5413; Shan., § 7393; Code 1932, § 12006; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1221.]