13A-11-161
Section 13A-11-161 Publication of certain documents considered privileged. The publication
of a fair and impartial report of the return of any indictment, the issuance of any warrant,
the arrest of any person for any cause or the filing of any affidavit, pleading or other document
in any criminal or civil proceeding in any court, or of a fair and impartial report of the
contents thereof, or of any charge of crime made to any judicial officer or body, or of any
report of any grand jury, or of any investigation made by any legislative committee, or other
public body or officer, shall be privileged, unless it be proved that the same was published
with actual malice, or that the defendant has refused or neglected to publish in the same
manner in which the publication complained of appeared, a reasonable explanation or contradiction
thereof by the plaintiff, or that the publisher has refused upon the written request of the
plaintiff to publish the subsequent determination of such suit,...
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15-7-4
Section 15-7-4 Warrant of arrest - Defined; contents; form. (a) A "warrant of arrest"
is an order in writing, issued and signed by a judge or magistrate, stating the substance
of the complaint and directed to a proper officer, commanding him to arrest the defendant.
(b) Such warrant must designate the name of the defendant, if known; but if it states that
the name is unknown to the judge or magistrate, then no name need be inserted. It must also
state the offense by name or so that it can be clearly inferred, the county in which it was
issued must appear from some part of the warrant, and the warrant must be signed by the judge
or magistrate, with his name and initials of office, or the same must in some way appear from
the warrant. It must be directed "to any lawful officer of the state," and, if executed
by any lawful officer having authority to execute it, it is valid without regard to its direction.
(c) A warrant of arrest may be in substance as follows: The State of Alabama,...
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31-2A-9
Section 31-2A-9 (Article 9.) Imposition of restraint. (a) Arrest is the restraint of a person
by an order, not imposed as a punishment for an offense, directing him or her to remain within
certain specified limits. Confinement is the physical restraint of a person. (b) An enlisted
member may be ordered into arrest or confinement by any commissioned officer by an order,
oral or written, delivered in person or through other persons subject to this code. A commanding
officer may authorize warrant officers, petty officers, or noncommissioned officers to order
enlisted members of the commanding officer's command or subject to the commanding officer's
authority into arrest or confinement. (c) A commissioned officer, a warrant officer, or a
civilian subject to this code or to trial thereunder may be ordered into arrest or confinement
only by a commanding officer to whose authority the person is subject, by an order, oral or
written, delivered in person or by another commissioned officer. The...
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15-10-11
Section 15-10-11 Authority of officer to pursue and arrest defendant in another county on warrant
from municipal court. Any lawful officer, having a warrant of arrest issued by a municipal
court to execute, may pursue the defendant into another county and, on obtaining a signed
endorsement on the warrant by an officer of that county authorized to issue such a warrant,
to the following effect: "A. B. is authorized to execute this warrant in ___ County,"
may summon persons to assist him in making the arrest, and exercise the same authority as
in his own county. (Code 1852, §437; Code 1867, §3986; Code 1876, §4656; Code 1886, §4271;
Code 1896, §5220; Code 1907, §6279; Code 1923, §3273; Code 1940, T. 15, §164.)...
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11-45-9.1
Section 11-45-9.1 Issuance of summons and complaint in lieu of arrest for violation of certain
ordinances; procedure; schedule of fines; additional penalty for failure to appear; disposition
of fines. (a) By ordinance, the governing body of any municipality may authorize any law enforcement
officer of a municipality or any law enforcement officer of the state, in lieu of placing
persons under custodial arrest, to issue a summons and complaint to any person charged with
violating any municipal littering ordinance; municipal ordinance which prohibits animals from
running at large, which shall include leash laws and rabies control laws; or any Class C misdemeanor
or violation not involving violence, threat of violence or alcohol or drugs. (b) Such summons
and complaint shall be on a form approved by the governing body of the municipality and shall
contain the name of the court; the name of the defendant; a description of the offense, including
the municipal ordinance number; the date and...
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36-21-123
Section 36-21-123 Powers generally. Any police officer appointed by a tribe pursuant to Section
36-21-122 shall be charged with all the powers of state police officers including, but not
limited to, the right to bear firearms. The police officers of a tribe may do any of the following:
(1) Eject trespassers from the buildings and grounds of the reservation. (2) Without a warrant,
arrest a person who is engaging in disorderly conduct, trespassing upon the property of the
reservation, or committing any public offense in the presence of the police officer on the
reservation property, carry the person before the proper court, and, upon proper affidavit,
charge the person with committing the offense. The person so arrested may be tried and convicted
as in cases of persons brought before a court on the warrant of the court. (3) Arrest any
person pursuant to a warrant who is on the premises of the reservation and is charged with
any public offense and take the person before the proper office....
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14-3-15
Section 14-3-15 Officers and guards - Pursuit and arrest of escaped convicts. Every officer
and guard, regularly sworn, shall have power to pursue and arrest any escaped convict in any
county of this state without a warrant. He may use such force or means as may be required
under the circumstances to prevent the convict's escape by flight or to overcome his resistance.
He shall have the same authority as a sheriff to summon persons to assist in making such arrest
or to protect such convict from any violence after arrest. (Code 1886, §4580; Code 1896,
§4453; Code 1907, §6505; Code 1923, §3604; Code 1940, T. 45, §22; Acts 1951, No. 365,
p. 660.)...
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15-10-3
Section 15-10-3 Arrest without warrant - Generally; written report; protection orders. (a)
An officer may arrest a person without a warrant, on any day and at any time in any of the
following instances: (1) If a public offense has been committed or a breach of the peace threatened
in the presence of the officer. (2) When a felony has been committed, though not in the presence
of the officer, by the person arrested. (3) When a felony has been committed and the officer
has probable cause to believe that the person arrested committed the felony. (4) When the
officer has probable cause to believe that the person arrested has committed a felony, although
it may afterwards appear that a felony had not in fact been committed. (5) When a charge has
been made, upon probable cause, that the person arrested has committed a felony. (6) When
the officer has actual knowledge that a warrant for the person's arrest for the commission
of a felony or misdemeanor has been issued, provided the warrant was...
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15-5-4
Section 15-5-4 Examination of complainant and witnesses; contents of depositions. Before issuing
a search warrant, a judge, or magistrate authorized by law to issue search warrants, must
examine on oath the complainant and any witness he may produce, take their depositions in
writing and cause them to be subscribed by the persons making them. Such depositions must
set forth facts tending to establish the grounds of the application or probable cause for
believing that they exist. (Code 1852, §§828, 829; Code 1867, §§4379, 4380; Code 1876,
§§4008, 4009; Code 1886, §4730; Code 1896, §5487; Code 1907, §7760; Code 1923, §5474;
Code 1940, T. 15, §103.)...
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15-9-40
Section 15-9-40 Arrest prior to requisition. Whenever any person within this state shall be
charged on the oath of any credible person before any district or circuit court judge of this
state with the commission of any crime in any other state and, except in cases arising under
Section 15-9-34, with having fled from justice; or whenever complaint shall have been made
before any district or circuit court judge in this state setting forth on the affidavit of
any credible person in another state that a crime has been committed in such other state,
that the accused has been charged in such state with the commission of the crime and, except
in cases arising under Section 15-9-34, that he has fled from justice and is believed to have
been found in this state, the judge shall issue a warrant directed to the sheriff of the county
in which the oath or complaint is filed, directing him to apprehend the person charged, wherever
he may be found in this state, and bring him before the same or any...
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