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26-2-43
Section 26-2-43 Procedure generally - Summoning, etc., of jurors, witnesses and person alleged
to be incapacitated. The judge of probate must issue a writ directed to the sheriff commanding
him or her to summon six disinterested persons of the neighborhood for the trial thereof and
also issue subpoenas for witnesses, as the parties may require, returnable to the time of
trial. The probate judge must also issue a writ directed to the sheriff to take the person
alleged to be incapacitated and, if consistent with his or her health or safety, have him
or her present at the place of the trial. (Code 1852, §2751; Code 1867, §3190; Code 1876,
§2758; Code 1886, §3393; Code 1896, §2258; Code 1907, §4348; Code 1923, §8106; Code 1940,
T. 21, §12; Acts 1945, No. 468, p. 704; Acts 1987, No. 87-590, p. 975, §2-333(b).)...
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13A-10-120
Section 13A-10-120 Definitions. (a) The definitions in Sections 13A-10-1, 13A-10-60 and 13A-10-100
are applicable in this article unless the context otherwise requires. (b) The following definitions
are also applicable in this article: (1) JUROR. Any person who is a member of any jury, including
a grand jury, impaneled by any court of this state or by any public servant authorized by
law to impanel a jury. The term juror also includes any person who has been summoned or whose
name has been drawn to attend as a prospective juror. (2) TESTIMONY. Such term includes oral
or written statements, documents or any other material that may be offered as evidence in
an official proceeding. (Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §5001.)...
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12-16-150
Section 12-16-150 Challenges of jurors for cause - Grounds generally. It is good ground for
challenge of a juror by either party: (1) That the person has not been a resident householder
or freeholder of the county for the last preceding six months. (2) That he is not a citizen
of Alabama. (3) That he has been indicted within the last 12 months for felony or an offense
of the same character as that with which the defendant is charged. (4) That he is connected
by consanguinity within the ninth degree, or by affinity within the fifth degree, computed
according to the rules of the civil law, either with the defendant or with the prosecutor
or the person alleged to be injured. (5) That he has been convicted of a felony. (6) That
he has an interest in the conviction or acquittal of the defendant or has made any promise
or given any assurance that he will convict or acquit the defendant. (7) That he has a fixed
opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant which would bias his...
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12-16-216
Section 12-16-216 Grand juror, witness, etc., prohibited from revealing, disclosing, etc.,
form, nature, etc., of physical evidence or questions asked; no person to directly, indirectly,
etc., by any means, obtain information as to physical evidence or questions asked; exception
as to state prosecutions. No past or present grand juror, past or present grand jury witness
or grand jury reporter or stenographer shall willfully at any time, directly or indirectly,
conditionally or unconditionally, by any means whatever, reveal, disclose or divulge or endeavor
to reveal, disclose or divulge or cause to be revealed, disclosed or divulged, any knowledge
of the form, nature or content of any physical evidence presented to any grand jury of this
state or any knowledge of the form, nature or content of any question propounded to any person
within or before any grand jury or any comment made by any person in response thereto or any
other evidence, testimony or conversation occurring or taken...
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15-20A-37
Section 15-20A-37 Failure to register; absconding. (a) When a sex offender declares, and the
county is notified that a sex offender intends to reside, maintain employment or a volunteer
position, or attend school in the county and the sex offender fails to appear for registration,
the county that received the notice shall immediately inform the sheriff of the county that
provided the notice that the sex offender failed to appear for registration. (b) When a sex
offender fails to register or cannot be located, an effort shall immediately be made by the
sheriff in the county in which the sex offender failed to register or is unable to be located
to determine whether the sex offender has absconded. (c) If no determination can be made as
to whether the sex offender has absconded, the sheriff of the county in which the sex offender
failed to appear for registration shall immediately notify the Alabama State Law Enforcement
Agency and the United States Marshals Service that the sex offender...
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12-16-145
Section 12-16-145 Alternate juror selection and qualification plan; master list; random selection;
disqualification. Notwithstanding any provision of Title 12, Chapter 16, the presiding circuit
judge, with the consent of the circuit judges of the court, may elect to utilize the following
alternate juror selection and qualification plan after notice to the Administrative Director
of Courts, which eliminates the master jury box and the interposition of the jury commission
in the qualifying process, and embraces and combines the qualification and summoning process,
as follows: The jury commission shall meet and cause to be compiled and maintained a master
list of persons in the county, together with their residence addresses, who may be called
for jury service. The list shall be compiled and maintained, avoiding duplication as far as
possible, from one or more of the sources named in Section 12-16-57 to include persons whose
listings will foster the policy and protect the rights provided...
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15-16-21
Section 15-16-21 Suspension of felony trial to inquire into accused's sanity; proceedings upon
jury findings; resumption of proceedings when sanity restored; release restriction. If any
person charged with any felony is held in confinement under indictment and the trial court
shall have reasonable ground to doubt his sanity, the trial of such person for such offense
shall be suspended until the jury shall inquire into the fact of such sanity, such jury to
be impaneled from the regular jurors in attendance for the week or from a special venire,
as the court may direct. If the jury shall find the accused sane at the time of its verdict,
it shall make no other inquiry, and the trial in chief shall proceed. If it finds that he
is insane at that time, the court shall make an order committing him to the Alabama state
hospitals, where he must remain until he is restored to his right mind. When the superintendent
of the hospitals shall be of opinion that such person is so restored, he shall...
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16-48-12
Section 16-48-12 Police officers. (a) The president of Auburn University, with the approval
of the board of trustees, is hereby authorized to appoint and employ suitable persons to act
as police officers to keep off intruders and prevent trespass upon and damage to the property
and grounds of the university. Such persons shall be charged with all the duties and invested
with all the powers of police officers and may eject trespassers from the university buildings
and grounds, and may, without a warrant, arrest any person guilty of disorderly conduct or
of trespass upon the property of the university, or for any public offense committed in their
presence, and carry them before the nearest district court or municipal court charged with
the trial of such offenders, before whom, upon proper affidavit charging the offense, any
person so arrested may be tried and convicted as in cases of persons brought before him on
his warrant; and such officers shall have authority to summon a posse...
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16-47-10
Section 16-47-10 Police officers - Appointed by president; powers and duties generally. The
president of the university may appoint or employ one or more suitable persons to act as police
officers to keep off intruders and prevent trespass upon and damage to the property of the
university. Such person shall be charged with all the duties and invested with all the powers
of police officers. The officer may eject trespassers from the university buildings and grounds.
The officer may, without warrant, arrest persons who commit disorderly conduct, or trespass
on the property of the institution, or in any circumstance in which an arrest by a police
officer without a warrant is authorized by law, and carry them before the nearest district
court or municipal court charged with the trial of such offenders. Upon proper affidavit charging
the offense, the person arrested may be tried by the court and convicted as in case of persons
brought before the court on a warrant. The officer or officers...
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16-50-4
Section 16-50-4 Powers and duties of university police officers. (a) The President of Alabama
State University, with the approval of the board of trustees, is hereby authorized to appoint
and employ suitable persons to act as police officers to keep off intruders and prevent trespass
upon and damage to the property and grounds of the university. Such persons shall be charged
with all the duties and vested with all the powers of police officers and may eject trespassers
from the university buildings and grounds and may, without warrant, arrest any persons guilty
of disorderly conduct or of trespass upon the property of the university, or for any public
offense committed in their presence, and carry them before the nearest court or officer charged
with the trial of such offenders, before whom, upon proper affidavit charging the offense,
any person so arrested may be tried and convicted as in cases of persons brought before him
on his warrant, and such officers shall have authority to...
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