28-4-277
Section 28-4-277 Forfeiture and condemnation proceedings generally - Appeals from judgment of district court - Persons entitled to appeal; bond for costs of appeal required; right to jury trial; proceedings in circuit court. Any person appearing and becoming a party defendant as provided in this article may appeal from the judgment of forfeiture and condemnation as to the whole or any part of the liquors and beverages and vessels and receptacles claimed by him and adjudged forfeited to the circuit court as in other cases appealed from a district court to a circuit court, the appeal to be granted upon parties giving bond for the cost of appeal, that will be incurred in the circuit court. Upon written demand being made therefor endorsed on the appeal bond at the time said appeal is taken, the appellants may be entitled to a jury for the trial of the action in the circuit court. Said circuit court shall proceed with the case de novo and may cause suitable issues to be framed for the...
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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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15-15-20.1
Section 15-15-20.1 Non-capital felony offense. (a) In any criminal proceeding for a non-capital felony offense commenced by complaint, the defendant may give written notice three days after his or her arrest to a judge of the district or circuit court of the county having jurisdiction of the offense charged that the defendant desires to plead guilty as charged or as a youthful offender upon the granting of youthful offender status. (b) Upon receipt of the written notice from the defendant stating his or her desire to plead guilty, the court shall direct the district attorney to prefer and file an information against the defendant. The information shall be made under oath of the district attorney or a witness, and shall accuse the defendant with the same specificity as required in an indictment of the offense or offenses for which the defendant is charged. This section shall not be construed to preclude the district attorney from amending or dismissing a pending charge against a...
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12-12-70
Section 12-12-70 Right of appeal and procedure for appeals generally; dismissal for failure to appear. (a) Civil cases. Any party may appeal from a final judgment of the district court in a civil case by filing notice of appeal in the district court, within 14 days from the date of the judgment or the denial of a posttrial motion, whichever is later, or, if the appeal is to an appellate court, within the time prescribed by the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure or the Alabama Rules of Juvenile Procedure where applicable, together with security for costs as required by law or rule. (b) Criminal cases. A defendant may appeal from a final judgment of the district court in a criminal or quasi-criminal case by filing notice of appeal within 14 days from the date of judgment or from the date of denial of a post-trial motion, whichever is later, together with such bond as may be fixed by the court, conditioned upon the defendant's appearance before the circuit court; provided, however, that...
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15-15-24
Section 15-15-24 Determination of degree of offense and fixing of punishment; when jury impaneled. (a) If a defendant upon arraignment or prior to trial pleads guilty, the court, without the intervention of a jury, shall determine the degree of the offense and fix the punishment therefor the same as a jury might fix or impose it if the case were being tried by a jury, unless, in the discretion of the trial judge, a jury should be impaneled to determine the degree of the offense or to fix the punishment therefor or unless the defendant at the time of entering such plea demands a jury in writing. The court shall not in any event, however, impose capital punishment without the intervention of a jury. (b) Whenever, in the discretion of the trial judge, a jury should be impaneled or a jury is demanded, in the manner and at the time prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, no special venire need be drawn, but the court must cause the punishment to be determined by a jury, except where...
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6-6-593
Section 6-6-593 Court always open; return of summons; setting of case for trial; trial by court or jury. (a) The court is at all times open for the trial of a case or the granting of orders therein. The summons shall be returnable 10 days from the date of issuance, and if five days' service is not had before such return day, the summons is returnable to the first day after the expiration of five days after such service. If such return day shall be a day of any regular or special session of the court, the case stands for trial on the next day after the return day, unless good cause shall be shown for further delay; but if such return day does not fall within a regular or special session, the judge must fix a day for the hearing, of which the clerk must notify the parties or their attorneys; and on such day the case may be tried or, for good cause shown or by consent of parties and the approval of the court, may be continued to another day. (b) The case specified in this section must be...
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11-42-66
Section 11-42-66 Appeals from judgment of probate judge - Filing; security for costs; right to jury trial. The property holders of the city shall have the right to appeal from the judgment of the judge of probate to the circuit court of the county in which the land is situated, within 10 days from the rendition of the judgment by the judge of probate, the property owner giving security for cost of appeal, to be approved by the judge of probate, if the appeal is taken by the property owner. On an appeal taken by either party, the action shall be entered on the trial docket and tried de novo in the circuit court, without a jury unless a trial by jury is demanded by the party taking the appeal by serving upon the other party a demand therefor in writing not less than 10 days after filing the notice of appeal or unless a trial by jury is demanded by the other party in the action by serving a demand therefor in writing upon the other party within 10 days from the time that notice of such...
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6-6-293
Section 6-6-293 Judgment - Rent of premises after judgment and before possession. The plaintiff may have judgment against the defendant for the rent of the premises which accrues after judgment and before the delivery of possession by motion in the circuit court where the judgment was entered, on 10 days' notice in writing, unless the judgment is stayed by appeal and bond, in which case the motion may be made after affirmance of the judgment. (Code 1852, §2208; Code 1867, §2609; Code 1876, §2958; Code 1886, §2711; Code 1896, §1551; Code 1907, §3855; Code 1923, §7471; Code 1940, T. 7, §956.)...
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40-3-25
Section 40-3-25 Appeals - Procedure. All appeals from the rulings of the board of equalization fixing value of property shall be taken within 30 days after the final decision of said board fixing the assessed valuation as provided in this chapter. The taxpayer shall file notice of said appeal with the secretary of the board of equalization and with the clerk of the circuit court and shall file bond to be filed with and approved by the clerk of the circuit court, conditioned to pay all costs, and the taxpayer or the state shall have the right to demand a trial by jury by filing a written demand therefor within 10 days after the appeal is taken. When an appeal is taken, the taxpayer shall pay the taxes due as fixed for assessment for the preceding tax year before the same becomes delinquent; and, upon failure to do so, the court upon motion ex mero motu must dismiss the appeal, unless at the time of taking the appeal the taxpayer has executed a supersedeas bond with sufficient sureties...
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6-6-285
Section 6-6-285 Proceedings upon defendant's suggestion of disputed boundary line. The defendant, within pleading time or within 30 days before the case is called for trial and after notice to the plaintiff or his attorney of record of his purpose so to do, may file his suggestion in writing that the action arises over a disputed boundary line, in which suggestion he shall describe the location of the true line, and the court or jury trying the issue shall ascertain the true location of the boundary line, and judgment shall be entered accordingly, and shall order the sheriff to establish and mark the true line as ascertained; and, in such case, the costs shall be apportioned justly and equitably. A single judgment on such issue of the location of the true boundary line shall bar another action for the location of the same boundary line. (Code 1852, §2213; Code 1867, §2614; Code 1876, §2963; Code 1886, §2699; Code 1896, §1533; Code 1907, §3843; Code 1923, §7457; Code 1940, T. 7,...
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