{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-40-3-103","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-3-103","heading":"Information","body":"(a) All violations of the criminal laws may, with the consent of the accused and the accused's attorney and of the court, be prosecuted upon the filing of an information. (b) \"Information\" means a written statement by a district attorney general charging a person with the commission of a criminal offense. (c) (1) It is the mandatory duty of the court, before consenting to a prosecution by information, to advise the accused in the presence of the accused's attorney of the accused's constitutional right to be tried only upon presentment or indictment of the grand jury of the accused's peers. (2) Upon the accused's agreeing in writing in the presence of the accused's attorney to waive such right, the court may proceed in all respects as in cases prosecuted by indictment or presentment. (3) The written waiver required in subdivision (c)(2) shall be attached to and become a part of the information. Acts 1975, ch. 258, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A., §§ 40-306, 40-307.\n(a) All violations of the criminal laws may, with the consent of the accused and the accused's attorney and of the court, be prosecuted upon the filing of an information.\n(b) \"Information\" means a written statement by a district attorney general charging a person with the commission of a criminal offense.\n(c) (1) It is the mandatory duty of the court, before consenting to a prosecution by information, to advise the accused in the presence of the accused's attorney of the accused's constitutional right to be tried only upon presentment or indictment of the grand jury of the accused's peers. (2) Upon the accused's agreeing in writing in the presence of the accused's attorney to waive such right, the court may proceed in all respects as in cases prosecuted by indictment or presentment. (3) The written waiver required in subdivision (c)(2) shall be attached to and become a part of the information.\n(1) It is the mandatory duty of the court, before consenting to a prosecution by information, to advise the accused in the presence of the accused's attorney of the accused's constitutional right to be tried only upon presentment or indictment of the grand jury of the accused's peers.\n(2) Upon the accused's agreeing in writing in the presence of the accused's attorney to waive such right, the court may proceed in all respects as in cases prosecuted by indictment or presentment.\n(3) The written waiver required in subdivision (c)(2) shall be attached to and become a part of the information.","path":["TN Code","Title 40","Chapter 3"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"59b15fdb6c683c10369b483cf85fe1d3480d2f10f24ef5cdf08d3ead462738d3","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-40-3-102","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-40-3-104","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}