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12-11-30
Section 12-11-30 Generally. (1) CIVIL. The circuit court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction
of all civil actions in which the matter in controversy exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000),
exclusive of interest and costs, and shall exercise original jurisdiction concurrent with
the district court in all civil actions in which the matter in controversy exceeds six thousand
dollars ($6,000), exclusive of interest and costs. (2) CRIMINAL. The circuit court shall have
exclusive original jurisdiction of all felony prosecutions and of misdemeanor or ordinance
violations which are lesser included offenses within a felony charge or which arise from the
same incident as a felony charge; except, that the district court shall have concurrent jurisdiction
with the circuit court to receive pleas of guilty in felony cases not punishable by sentence
of death. The circuit court may, on conviction of a defendant, upon a showing of inability
to make immediate payment of fine and costs,...
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12-19-150
Section 12-19-150 Legislative intent; assessment of fees in criminal cases; submission of cost
bill by municipal or district court clerk and making of final assessment of costs in circuit
court upon appeals from municipal or district courts to circuit courts. (a) It is hereby declared
to be the policy of the state that docket fees and other court costs in criminal cases shall
generally be assessed only upon conviction. It is further declared to be the policy of the
state that a creditor shall not use the criminal process in order to collect civil debts.
The state does recognize that situations will arise from time to time wherein justice may
best be served by allowing a judge to enter an order dismissing a case upon the payment of
costs by the defendant or by the complainant where the judge has determined that the criminal
process has been abused. (b) Docket fees and other court costs in criminal cases shall be
assessed upon conviction; provided that, in the interest of justice,...
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42-2-6
Section 42-2-6 Conduct of hearing; order granting or refusing application; appeal from grant
or refusal of application. On the day appointed or any other day to which the hearing may
be continued, the court must hear the allegations of the application and any objections which
may be filed to the granting thereof and any legal evidence touching the same, and shall make
an order granting or refusing the application. The hearing herein provided for must in all
respects be conducted and evidence taken as in civil cases, and either party may, by bill
of exception, reserve any opinion or decision of the court. Either party is entitled to an
appeal to the Supreme Court from the order of the court granting or refusing the application
within 42 days from the making thereof. (Code 1907, §§2419, 2420; Code 1923, §§3153, 3154;
Code 1940, T. 59, §§9, 10.)...
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43-8-198
Section 43-8-198 Transfer of contest to circuit court; appeal from judgment of circuit court;
certification of judgment, etc., to probate court. Upon the demand of any party to the contest,
made in writing at the time of filing the initial pleading, the probate court, or the judge
thereof, must enter an order transferring the contest to the circuit court of the county in
which the contest is made, and must certify all papers and documents pertaining to the contest
to the clerk of the circuit court, and the case shall be docketed by the clerk of the circuit
court and a special session of said court may be called for the trial of said contest or,
said contest may be tried by said circuit court at any special or regular session of said
court. The issues must be made up in the circuit court as if the trial were to be had in the
probate court, and the trial had in all other respects as trials in other civil cases in the
circuit court. An appeal to the supreme court may be taken from the...
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36-11-16
Section 36-11-16 Appeals to Supreme Court from judgment of circuit court - Requirement of security
for costs; effect of appeal as to judgment of conviction. If the appeal is taken by the state
in cases instituted in its name by the Attorney General or a district attorney, no security
for costs shall be required. In all other cases, security for costs shall be required as in
appeals to the Supreme Court in civil actions, and such appeal shall not suspend the judgment
of conviction. (Code 1876, §4062; Code 1886, §4835; Code 1896, §4882; Code 1907, §7120;
Code 1923, §4515; Code 1940, T. 41, §196.)...
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12-15-203
Section 12-15-203 Transfer of cases from juvenile court. (a) A prosecutor, before a hearing
on a delinquency petition on its merits and after notifying, verbally or in writing, the juvenile
probation officer, may file a motion requesting the juvenile court judge to transfer a child
for criminal prosecution to the circuit or district court, if the child was 14 or more years
of age at the time of the conduct charged and is alleged to have committed an act which would
constitute a criminal offense as defined by this code if committed by an adult. (b) The juvenile
court judge shall conduct a hearing on all motions for the purpose of determining whether
it is in the best interests of the child or the public to grant the motion. Only if there
are no reasonable grounds to believe the child is committable to an institution, department,
or agency for individuals with an intellectual disability or mental illness, may the juvenile
court judge order the case transferred for criminal prosecution....
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45-27-81
circuit judge shall draw warrants on the county for expenditures by indicating on the warrants
the funds against which the warrants are to be drawn. The management of the law library shall
be vested in the presiding judge of the circuit court, and all books, periodicals, reports,
and other property purchased with the funds produced by this section shall be the property
of Escambia County. The presiding judge may from time to time sell or exchange the books,
reports, periodicals, and other personal property as may be necessary to keep the library
up to date and apply the proceeds of the sale thereof or the value thereof upon the purchase
of other books, reports, periodicals, and personal property for use in the library.
The presiding judge of the circuit court may accept any gift or loan of any books, reports,
periodicals, and other property for public use in the library upon the terms and conditions
as may be stipulated by the donor or lender thereof as may be agreeable to the judge....
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41-22-20
Section 41-22-20 Judicial review of preliminary, procedural, etc., actions or rulings and final
decisions in contested cases. (a) A person who has exhausted all administrative remedies available
within the agency, other than rehearing, and who is aggrieved by a final decision in a contested
case is entitled to judicial review under this chapter. A preliminary, procedural, or intermediate
agency action or ruling is immediately reviewable if review of the final agency decision would
not provide an adequate remedy. (b) All proceedings for review may be instituted by filing
of notice of appeal or review and a cost bond with the agency to cover the reasonable costs
of preparing the transcript of the proceeding under review, unless waived by the agency or
the court on a showing of substantial hardship. A petition shall be filed either in the Circuit
Court of Montgomery County or in the circuit court of the county in which the agency maintains
its headquarters, or unless otherwise...
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12-17-184
Section 12-17-184 Powers and duties generally. It is the duty of every district attorney and
assistant district attorney, within the circuit, county, or other territory for which he or
she is elected or appointed: (1) To attend on the grand juries, advise them in relation to
matters of law, and examine and swear witnesses before them. (2) To draw up all indictments
and to prosecute all indictable offenses. (3) To prosecute and defend any civil action in
the circuit court in the prosecution or defense of which the state is interested. (4) To inquire
whether registers have performed the duty required of them by Section 12-17-117 and shall,
in every case of failure, move against the register as provided by subsection (b) of Section
12-17-114. (5) If a criminal prosecution is removed from a court of his or her circuit, county,
or division of a county to a court of the United States, to appear in that court and represent
the state; and, if it is impracticable, consistent with his or her...
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45-10-81
Section 45-10-81 Public law library; Law Library Fund. (a) The governing body of Cherokee County,
Alabama, may establish and maintain a public law library in the county, and, to accomplish
that purpose, may, from time to time, expend public funds of the county as are not required
by law to be expended for any other purpose or purposes: To provide suitable accommodations
and facilities therefor, to keep the same in a good state of maintenance and repair; and from
time to time, to provide such supplies, books, reports, and periodicals for the library, as
may be needed therefor, out of the proceeds of the special fund created by this section, or
for such other purposes as provided for in Section 11-25-13. (b) In order to provide a special
fund for the creation and maintenance of the library there shall be taxed as costs the sum
of five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50) in each civil or quasi-civil action at law, suit in
equity, criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited...
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