38-3-101 - Methods of preventing offenses.

38-3-101. Methods of preventing offenses.

Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice by:

     (1)  Requiring security to keep the peace; and

     (2)  Suppressing riots, unlawful assemblies and breaches of the peace.

[Code 1858, § 4931; Shan., § 6892; Code 1932, § 11416; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 38-201.]