41-21-108 - Search of inmate and baggage.

41-21-108. Search of inmate and baggage.

The baggage and person of the inmate shall also be carefully searched, and every instrument taken therefrom by which the inmate may effect an escape.

[Code 1858, § 5500 (deriv. Acts 1829, ch. 38, § 25); Shan., § 7518; Code 1932, § 12115; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-208.]