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12-16-81
Section 12-16-81 Failure of sheriff to summon juror drawn, failure of juror summoned to attend
trial, etc., not grounds for quashing venire or continuing case. If the sheriff fails to summon
any jurors drawn or any person summoned fails or refuses to attend the trial or there is any
mistake in the name of any person drawn or summoned, none nor all of these grounds shall be
sufficient to quash the venire or continue the case. (Acts 1909, No. 227, p. 305; Code 1923,
§8621; Code 1940, T. 30, §37.)...
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43-8-192
Section 43-8-192 Drawing and summoning of jurors; penalty for default. (a) The jury for the
trial of such contest must be drawn and summoned as provided by law. (b) Any person summoned
as a juror who shall, without legal cause or good excuse, fail to attend at the time and place
required, shall be guilty of a contempt of court and may be punished by the court by a fine
of not exceeding $100.00. (Code 1852, §§1637-1639; Code 1867, §§1956-1958; Code 1876,
§§2320-2322; Code 1886, §§1991, 1992; Code 1896, §§4289, 4290; Code 1907, §§6198,
6199; Acts 1909, No. 227, p. 305; Code 1923, §§10627, 10628; Code 1940, T. 61, §§54, 55;
Code 1975, §43-1-72.)...
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12-16-100
Section 12-16-100 Drawing, selection, and empaneling of juries in criminal cases - Generally.
(a) In every criminal case the jury shall be drawn, selected and empaneled as follows: Upon
the trial by jury in the circuit courts of any person charged with a felony, including a capital
felony, a misdemeanor, or violation, the court shall require a strike list or lists to be
compiled from the names appearing on the master strike list as established in Section 12-16-74.
In compiling the list or lists, names of qualified jurors may be omitted on a nonselective
basis. A strike list shall be furnished for the trial of any case at hand and a copy thereof
given to all parties. The jurors whose names appear thereon shall be brought into open court,
the case shall be called and in the presence of the district attorney and the defendant and
his attorney, the jurors shall be examined on voir dire for the trial of the case at hand.
After the conclusion of the voir dire examination and the removal from...
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17-12-15
Section 17-12-15 Time and manner of canvassing. On the second Friday next after the election,
at the hour of 12:00 noon, the sheriff, in person or by deputy, and the judge of probate and
the clerk of the circuit court shall assemble at the courthouse; and if there is no such judge
or clerk, or if either of them fails to attend, or if either of them is interested by reason
of having been a candidate at such election, his or her place must be supplied by a respectable
elector of the county, appointed by the board hereinbefore provided for the appointing of
the inspectors in the various voting places for the election, at the time of appointing the
election inspectors, and if the appointing board fails to provide for such member or members,
or if any member or members as herein provided should fail to attend at the time and place
herein mentioned, the sheriff shall supply such deficiency by a respectable elector of the
county; and if all such officers are of the same political party, then...
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12-16-59
Section 12-16-59 Drawings from master jury box; preparation and contents of juror qualification
forms; completion of qualification forms by prospective jurors; misrepresentation of material
facts on qualification forms. (a) From time to time and in a manner prescribed by the circuit
court, the jury commission shall publicly draw at random from the master jury box the names
or identifying numbers of as many prospective jurors as the court orders. Neither the names
drawn nor any list thereof shall be disclosed to any person other than pursuant to this article
or specific order of the court. The jury commission shall mail to every prospective juror
whose name is drawn from the master jury box a juror qualification form accompanied by instructions
to fill out and return the form to the jury commission within 10 days after its receipt. (b)
The juror qualification form shall be prepared by the Supreme Court of Alabama and shall elicit
the name, age and address of the prospective juror, and...
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11-47-172
Section 11-47-172 Procedure for condemnation and appeal; asssessment of value, etc. (a) Whenever
the proprietor or proprietors or any of them of any of the lands necessary for any of the
purposes provided in Section 11-47-171 or necessary for opening new streets or widening old
streets and the mayor or other chief executive officer cannot agree on a price of said lands
or cannot agree as to the amount to be paid for changing the grade of any street, sidewalk,
or public place and whenever the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall be an infant, non
compos mentis, a nonresident, or unknown, then the mayor or other chief executive officer
shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for a writ of ad quod damnum to
be directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon three freeholders of the
county to appear before the sheriff on a day named, not less than two days from the date of
the writ, and to proceed under his direction to assess a value of the lands of...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment set
forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient, and analogous
forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY. The
State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county charge
that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the following
forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney of
the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary to
law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the
unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales
of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised),
which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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12-16-89
Section 12-16-89 Negligent failure of sheriff or deputy to summon juror. If the sheriff or
any deputy shall negligently fail to summon any person to serve as a juror whom he is commanded
to summon, he shall be held and deemed guilty of a contempt of court and shall be fined not
more than $100.00 in every case where the person is not so served, and he may also be imprisoned
in the county jail for not more than five days. The return of any such person as "not
found" shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of the sheriff or deputy
making the return, and he shall be punished by the court unless the court is reasonably satisfied
from evidence produced that he was not negligent. (Acts 1909, No. 227, p. 305; Code 1923,
§§8620, 8621; Code 1940, T. 30, §§36, 37.)...
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6-6-683
Section 6-6-683 Judgment against officer accepting substitute for juror or serving person other
than one to be drawn. Any officer who accepts or receives a substitute for any person drawn
as a juror or whom he is directed to summon as a juror or who intentionally serves any other
person than the one drawn as a juror or whom he is directed to summon as a juror must be fined
$50, to be recovered on motion by the district attorney, in the name of the state, in the
circuit court of the county in which the offense is committed, on five days' notice, one half
of which shall be for the use of the county and the other half for the use of the district
attorney. (Code 1876, §3371; Code 1886, §3113; Code 1896, §3781; Code 1907, §5917; Code
1923, §10244; Code 1940, T. 7, §599.)...
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12-16-73
Section 12-16-73 Execution and return of order to summon jurors by sheriff. (a) Every order
to summon jurors, except as otherwise provided in this article, shall be executed by the sheriff
by either of the following methods at the election of the sheriff: (1) By giving personal
notice to every such person or by leaving a written notice at the place of residence of the
summoned juror with some family member of the juror or with some person residing at the same
residence, at least two days before the day appointed for the service of the juror in court;
or (2) By placing a written notice to a person named in the order to summon jurors in the
United States mail, first class, postage prepaid and addressed to the residence of the person
summoned. The envelope in which such notice is mailed shall indicate the return address of
the sheriff and shall bear a proper notice that if it cannot be delivered at the indicated
address it shall be returned to the sheriff. Such notice must be deposited in...
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