40-22-114 - Transmittal of papers and recommendations to governor.

40-22-114. Transmittal of papers and recommendations to governor.

In case the board of probation and parole recommends to the governor that the prisoner be pardoned and finally discharged, it shall file the papers received from the trial judge, together with its recommendation attached thereto, with the governor, a sufficient time before the next term of court at which the prisoner is required to appear, to enable the governor to take action on the recommendation.

[Acts 1915, ch. 135, § 3; Shan., § 7230a9; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 42; Code 1932, § 11829; Acts 1979, ch. 359, § 37; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3015; Acts 1998, ch. 1049, § 20.]