9-2-112 - Examination of reports by grand jury Penalties for violations.
9-2-112. Examination of reports by grand jury Penalties for violations.
(a) It is the duty of the grand jury, impaneled next after the filing of the reports by clerks or judges, to examine the same, in order to ascertain their correctness, and if such grand jury shall find any omission in the reports, or any amount erroneously charged, or any error whatever in the reports, and shall be of opinion that such omission, mistake or error was corruptly or fraudulently made, such grand jury shall present the officer who made the report.
(b) Upon conviction, the officer and such officer's sureties shall be bound to pay whatever fine and costs may be adjudged against the officer.
(c) If the traverse jury should find the omission or other error to have been willfully made, then the court, in addition to the fine and costs, shall also remove the officer from office.
(d) The grand jury has the power to send for persons and papers to facilitate its investigations into the correctness of the reports.
[Acts 1875, ch. 46, § 4; Shan., § 1021; Code 1932, § 1750; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-212.]