15-11-15
Section 15-11-15 Court to report when person held on indictment; report when no committals.
(a) When any person is held by a district court to answer an indictment for a public offense,
it is the duty of such court to return to the district attorney immediately after the order
holding or committing such person the affidavit and warrant of arrest, with a transcript of
the docket, a list of the state's witnesses and all costs and all undertakings of bail by
parties or witnesses in the case. (b) When there has been no such committals since the last
session of the circuit court, the district court shall make a report of that fact to the district
attorney. (Code 1852, §473; Code 1867, §4022; Code 1876, §4692; Code 1886, §4298; Code
1896, §5247; Code 1907, §7615; Code 1923, §5248; Code 1940, T. 15, §151.)...
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15-15-21
Section 15-15-21 Information preferred and filed against defendant. When the desire of a defendant
to plead guilty is made known to the court, it shall direct the district attorney of such
court to prefer and file an information against such defendant, under the oath of such district
attorney or some witness, which information shall accuse the defendant, with the same certainty
as an indictment, of the criminal offense for which he is being held. (Acts 1939, No. 227,
p. 367; Code 1940, T. 15, §261.)...
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12-17-195
Section 12-17-195 Assistant district attorneys representing defendants charged with criminal
offenses. Any assistant district attorney who acts as attorney for, represents or defends
any defendant charged with a criminal offense of any kind or character in any court, state,
municipal or federal, in this state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction,
shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00. (Acts 1945, No. 342, p. 558.)...

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15-25-2
Section 15-25-2 Prosecution for physical or sexual offense or exploitation involving child
under age 16 - Videotaped deposition; who may be present; procedure; protective order. (a)
In any criminal prosecution referred to in Section 15-25-1, the court, upon motion of the
district attorney or Attorney General, for good cause shown and after notice to the defendant,
may order the taking of a videotaped deposition of an alleged victim of or witness to the
crime who is under the age of 16 at the time of the order. (b) On any motion for a videotaped
deposition of the victim or a witness, the court shall consider the age and maturity of the
child, the nature of the offense, the nature of testimony that may be expected, and the possible
effect that the testimony in person at trial may have on the victim or witness, along with
any other relevant matters that may be required by Supreme Court rule. (c) During the taping
of a videotaped deposition authorized pursuant to this section, the...
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15-6-20
Section 15-6-20 Examination of complainant and witnesses; form of affidavit. (a) Whenever complaint
is made to a judge of a circuit, district or municipal court that any person has threatened
or is about to commit an offense on the person or property of another, such judge must examine
the complainant and any witness he may produce on oath, reduce such examination to writing
and cause it to be subscribed by the party so examined. (b) The affidavit may be after the
following form: "State of Alabama, ___ County. Before me, ___,a (circuit, district or
municipal) judge (setting out his name and office) in and for said county and state, personally
appeared A. B., who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that C. D. has threatened to assault
and beat him (or is about) to ___ (here set forth the particular offense threatened or about
to be committed) on the person or property of affiant (or E. F., a third person, as the case
may be.) (Signed) A. B. Sworn to and subscribed...
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13A-10-195
Section 13A-10-195 Possession, distribution, etc., of detonator, explosive, poison gas, or
hoax device by person under indictment or convicted of felony. (a) It shall be unlawful for
a person who is under indictment or who has been convicted of a felony by a court of this
state, any other state, the United States including its territories, possessions, and dominions,
or a foreign nation to possess, manufacture, transport, or distribute a detonator, explosive,
poison gas, or hoax device. (b) It shall be unlawful for a person to knowingly distribute
a detonator, explosive, poison gas, or hoax device to any of the following: (1) A person who
he or she knows or should know has been convicted of a felony by a court of this state, any
other state, the United States including its territories, possessions, and dominions, or a
foreign nation. (2) A person who he or she knows or should know has been adjudicated to be
mentally incompetent by a court of this state, any other state, or the United...
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15-11-12
Section 15-11-12 Requiring witnesses to enter undertaking; form of undertaking. (a) The court
may require the witnesses for the prosecution to enter into an undertaking, in the sum of
$100.00 each, to appear and testify at the court having cognizance of the offense and, if
requested by the defendant, may require his witnesses to enter into such undertaking. (b)
The undertaking of the witnesses for the prosecution or defense may be in substance as follows:
"The State of Alabama, ) We, A.B., C.D., and E.F., witnesses against (or for, as the
case may be), G.H., ___ County, ) charged with a public offense, do each agree to appear at
the district court of _____ County, to give evidence against (or for, as the case may be)
him and, failing to do so, to pay to the State of Alabama (or to the said G. H., if the undertaking
is for the defendant's witnesses) $100.00. Dated this _____ day of _____, 20__. (Signed) A.B.
C.D. E.F. Taken by L. M., Judge, District Court." (c) Whenever the court...
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15-13-132
Section 15-13-132 Conditional forfeiture notice to defendant and sureties. A notice of the
rendition of the judgment set forth in Section 15-13-131 shall be issued by the clerk of the
court and served according to the terms as established in this article within 90 days of the
court's conditional forfeiture order to the defendant and sureties. The notice may be in the
following form: STATE OF ALABAMA ___ (or City of ___) Defendant vs ___ County ___ Surety Case
No. ___ ___ Surety Charge: ___ Conditional Forfeiture Notice To: ___ ___ Court Defendant ___
___ Surety You are hereby notified that your name appears as a surety on the bond in the above
styled case. This case was called for trial on ___ (date) and the defendant was not present
to answer. Therefore, a conditional forfeiture of ___ dollars was entered against you. You
shall file a written response within 28 days after you...
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15-13-3
Section 15-13-3 Persons charged with capital offense. (a) A defendant cannot be admitted to
bail when he is charged with an offense which may be punished by death if the court is of
the opinion, on the evidence adduced, that he is guilty of the offense in the degree punishable
capitally, nor when he is charged with a personal injury to another which is likely to produce
death and which was committed under circumstances such as would, if death arises from such
injury, constitute an offense which may be punished by death. (b) In cases punishable capitally,
the defendant is entitled to bail as a matter of right when the state, after the finding of
the indictment, has continued the case twice, without his consent, for the testimony of absent
witnesses. In such case, if the indictment is dismissed, the defendant, on application for
bail, is entitled to the benefit of any continuance had upon such indictment by the state
for absent witnesses; and, if another indictment is not found at the...
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15-15-44
Section 15-15-44 When plea on ground grand jurors improperly drawn to be filed; procedure when
plea sustained. A plea to an indictment, on the ground that the grand jurors by whom it was
found were not drawn in the presence of the officers designated by law must, if the accused
has been arrested, be filed at the session at which the indictment is found, and, if the accused
has not been arrested, it must be filed at the first session at which it is practicable after
the defendant's arrest; and, in all cases before a plea to the merits, if sustained, the defendant
must not be discharged but must be held in custody or bailed, as the case may be, to answer
another indictment at the same or the next session of the court, and the time elapsing between
the first and second indictments, in such case, must not be computed as a part of the period
limited by law for the prosecution of the offense. (Code 1852, §636; Code 1867, §4188; Code
1876, §4890; Code 1886, §4446; Code 1896, §5270; Code...
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