Tennessee Code Title 40. Criminal Procedure § 40-25-129

(1) All felony cases, where prosecution has proceeded to a verdict in the circuit or criminal court;

(2) All cases where the defendant has been convicted in a court of record and the court has made a finding at any evidentiary hearing that the defendant is indigent and remains indigent at the time of conviction or where the execution issued upon the judgment against the defendant has been returned nulla bona.  Neither the state of Tennessee nor any county of the state shall be liable for or pay any costs in any criminal case, where security has been accepted by the officer taking the security, and an execution, afterwards returned nulla bona, as to the defendant and the defendant's securities.  Compensation for boarding prisoners (§§ 8-26-105, 40-25-118 -- 40-25-121, and 41-4-131 -- 41-4-137), expenses of keeping and boarding juries (§§ 40-25-115 -- 40-25-121), compensation of jurors (§§ 22-4-101 -- 22-4-107 and 40-18-107), costs of transcripts in cases taken to the supreme court by appeal or writ of error as provided by law, mileage and legal fees for removing or conveying criminals and prisoners from one (1) county to another, or from one (1) jail to another (§ 8-21-901(a)(3)(D)), and compensation and mileage of witnesses for the state duly subpoenaed and required to attend before any court, grand jury or magistrate in a county other than that of their residence and more than five (5) miles from their residence (§§ 24-4-102 and 40-17-112), and where any witness for the state shall be confined in jail to await the trial in which the witness is to testify, shall be paid in all cases as heretofore;  and