12-21-283
Section 12-21-283 Procedure for securing attendance of witness in another state at criminal
proceedings, etc., within state; fees and allowances; effect of failure of summoned witness
to attend and testify. (a) If a person in any state which, by its laws, has made provision
for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal proceedings or
grand jury investigations commenced or about to be commenced in this state is a material witness
in a criminal proceeding pending in a court of record in this state or in a grand jury investigation
which has commenced or is about to commence, a judge of such court may issue a certificate
under the seal of the court stating these facts and specifying the number of days the witness
will be required. Said certificate may include a recommendation that the witness be taken
into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of this state to assure his attendance
in this state. This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a...
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11-46-67
Section 11-46-67 Offenses of electors. (a) Any elector who takes or removes or attempts to
take or remove any ballot from the polling place at a municipal election before the close
of the polls or who remains longer than the time allowed by law in the booth or compartment
after being notified his or her time has expired must, on conviction, be fined not less than
ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). (b) Any person who willfully makes
to the inspectors of a municipal election a false declaration asserting an inability to prepare
his or her ballot without assistance must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars
($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500). (c) Any qualified elector at any municipal
election who takes or receives any money or other valuable thing upon the condition that the
same shall be paid at any future time in exchange for the vote of such elector for any particular
candidate or the promise to vote for any particular candidate...
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15-10-40
Section 15-10-40 Issuance by clerk, district attorney or judge. A writ of arrest must be issued
by the clerk forthwith after the finding of the indictment against each defendant who is not
in actual custody, who has not been bailed, whose undertaking of bail has been declared forfeited
or when an order is made by the judge presiding when the indictment is returned by the grand
jury commanding that writ of arrest issue; or it may be issued without order of court by the
district attorney of the circuit or by any circuit judge. But if the defendant is in actual
custody, he shall be held by virtue of the indictment and no writ of arrest need be issued,
unless it is so ordered by the judge presiding when the indictment is found. (Code 1852, §601;
Code 1867, §4153; Code 1876, §4826; Code 1886, §4396; Code 1896, §5252; Code 1907, §6284;
Code 1923, §3278; Acts 1931, No. 556, p. 652; Code 1940, T. 15, §169.)...
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28-4-134
Section 28-4-134 Persons not to be excused from testifying before grand juries or at trials
for violations of article; immunity from prosecution as to matters disclosed. No person shall
be excused from testifying before the grand jury or at the trial in any prosecution for any
violation of provisions contained in this article, but no disclosure or discovery made by
such person is to be used against him in any penal or criminal prosecution for and on account
of the matters disclosed. (Acts 1915, No. 10, p. 39; Code 1923, §4702; Code 1940, T. 29,
§171.)...
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9-11-21
Section 9-11-21 Investigation of hunting deaths by grand jury; reporting of such accidents.
(a) Any hunting accident involving a gun or bow and arrow when such accident results in death
and when such death is caused by one person against another, upon the recommendation of the
conservation department, shall be investigated by the grand jury of the county in which said
death occurs. (b) All accidents referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be reported
by the law enforcement agency chiefly involved in the investigation of said death to the office
of the Director of the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries of the Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources within 72 hours of said death, by the coroner and the sheriff's
department of the county in which the death occurred. (Acts 1987, No. 87-730, p. 1423, §§1,
2.)...
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12-1-8
Section 12-1-8 Cases in which courts may issue attachments and inflict summary punishment for
contempt. The powers of the several courts in this state to issue attachments and inflict
summary punishment for contempts shall not extend to any other cases than: (1) Disrespectful,
contemptuous or insolent behavior in court, tending in any way to diminish or impair the respect
due to judicial tribunals or to interrupt the due course of trial; (2) A breach of the peace,
boisterous conduct, violent disturbance or any other act calculated to disturb or obstruct
the administration of justice, committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as
to have that effect; (3) The misbehavior of any officer of the court in his official transactions
or the disobedience or resistance of any officer of the court, party, juror, witness or any
other person to any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree or command thereof; (4) Deceit
or the abuse of the process of the proceedings of the court by...
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13A-5-40
Section 13A-5-40 Capital offenses. (a) The following are capital offenses: (1) Murder by the
defendant during a kidnapping in the first degree or an attempt thereof committed by the defendant.
(2) Murder by the defendant during a robbery in the first degree or an attempt thereof committed
by the defendant. (3) Murder by the defendant during a rape in the first or second degree
or an attempt thereof committed by the defendant; or murder by the defendant during sodomy
in the first or second degree or an attempt thereof committed by the defendant. (4) Murder
by the defendant during a burglary in the first or second degree or an attempt thereof committed
by the defendant. (5) Murder of any police officer, sheriff, deputy, state trooper, federal
law enforcement officer, or any other state or federal peace officer of any kind, or prison
or jail guard, while the officer or guard is on duty, regardless of whether the defendant
knew or should have known the victim was an officer or guard on...
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28-4-136
Section 28-4-136 Penalties for violations of provisions of article by railroad companies, express
companies, etc.; duties of district attorney in cases of grand jury indictments. (a) Any railroad
company, express company or other carrier or any person or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this article or failing to comply with any requirements thereof shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00, to which,
at the discretion of the court, may be added imprisonment in the county jail or confinement
at hard labor for the county for not more than six months for the first conviction. On the
second and every subsequent conviction of a violation of any provisions of this article, the
offense shall, in addition to a fine within the limitations above named, be punishable by
imprisonment in the county jail or at hard labor for the county for not less than three nor
more than six months, to be imposed by the court. (b) It shall...
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15-4-9
Section 15-4-9 Issuance and execution of arrest warrant for accused; appearance of accused
before judge. (a) If a jury summoned under this chapter finds that the deceased came to his
death by the act of another by unlawful means, the coroner may issue a warrant of arrest for
such person, which may be executed in the same manner as provided in Chapter 7 of this title.
(b) When arrested, the person must be brought before the district court of the county in which
the inquest was held, and the district court judge must proceed to examine the charge and
commit, bail or discharge the defendant as upon a warrant of arrest under the provisions of
such chapter. (Code 1852, §819; Code 1867, §4370; Code 1876, §3998; Code 1886, §4809;
Code 1896, §4932; Code 1907, §7170; Code 1923, §4565; Code 1940, T. 15, §84.)...
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36-11-3
Section 36-11-3 Investigations of alleged misconduct or incompetency of public officers by
grand juries; disposition of grand jury reports. It shall be the duty of every grand jury
to investigate and make diligent inquiry concerning any alleged misconduct or incompetency
of any public officer in the county which may be brought to its notice; and, if, on such investigation
and inquiry, it finds that such officer, for any cause mentioned in this chapter, ought to
be removed from office, it shall so report to the court, setting forth the facts, which report
shall be entered on the minutes of the court. If the officer so reported against is one of
those included in Section 174, Article 7, of the constitution, the clerk of the court shall
transmit a certified copy of such report to the Attorney General. If the officer so reported
against is the presiding judge of the court, the report must not be made to the court or entered
on the minutes; and, in such cases, the report of the grand jury...
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