Return Date

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Criminal Procedure
  4. Warrants
  5. Search Warrants
  6. Return Date

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  1. A search warrant shall be executed and returned to the magistrate by whom it was issued within five (5) days after its date, after which time, unless executed, it is void.
  2. All search warrants in this state may be executed either in the daytime or in the nighttime.

Code 1858, § 5326; Shan., § 7304; mod. Code 1932, § 11907; Acts 1969, ch. 252, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-507.

Textbooks. Tennessee Criminal Practice and Procedure (Raybin), § 18.122.

Tennessee Jurisprudence, 16 Tenn. Juris., Intoxicating Liquors, § 28; 22 Tenn. Juris., Searches and Seizures, §§ 6, 7.


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