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15-17-2
Section 15-17-2 When jury cannot agree upon verdict as to all jointly tried defendants. When
several persons are indicted and tried jointly, if the jury cannot agree upon a verdict as
to all, they may render a verdict as to those in regard to whom they agree, on which a judgment
must be entered accordingly, and the case as to the other defendants may be tried by another
jury. (Code 1852, §652; Code 1867, §4204; Code 1876, §4909; Code 1886, §4483; Code 1896,
§5307; Code 1907, §7316; Code 1923, §8698; Code 1940, T. 15, §324.)...
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37-2-34
Section 37-2-34 Joint actions against connecting carriers. When goods, wares, merchandise or
other personal property are shipped to some point of delivery in this state over two or more
connecting lines of transportation companies, both or all of which are engaged in the business
of a transportation company in the State of Alabama, and such goods, wares and merchandise
or other personal property are lost, destroyed, or damaged because of unreasonable delay in
the delivery thereof or by the neglect of duty of any such transportation company or connecting
transportation companies, and the owner or consignee of such freight sustains injury or loss
thereby, and payment for such injury or loss or destruction is not made after notice to and
demand therefor of such connecting and delivering companies within 30 days thereafter, the
owner or consignee thereof may bring a civil action against such delivering and connecting
companies jointly; the action to be instituted in the county of delivery,...
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6-5-4
Section 6-5-4 Recovery of public moneys, funds or property. (a) The Governor may cause actions
to be commenced for the recovery of any public moneys, funds, or property of the state or
of any county which have been lost by the neglect or default of any public officer, which
have been wrongfully expended or disbursed by such officer, which have been wrongfully used
by such officer, or which have been wrongfully received from him. (b) In the event any public
officer or agent of the state or any depositary or custodian of public funds or moneys has
wrongfully used such funds or moneys, actions for the recovery thereof may be commenced before
any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter; and it shall not be ground of objection
to such an action that either, any, or all of the parties defendant do not reside within the
county or within the district in which such action is commenced. (c) Such action may be commenced
in any court of competent jurisdiction; and such officer or agent,...
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15-14-20
Section 15-14-20 Election by jointly indicted defendants. When two or more defendants are jointly
indicted, they may be tried either jointly or separately, as either may elect. (Code 1852,
§638; Code 1867, §4190; Code 1876, §4892; Code 1886, §4451; Code 1896, §5275; Code 1907,
§7842; Code 1923, §5570; Code 1940, T. 15, §319.)...
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12-21-224
Section 12-21-224 Acquitted codefendant as witness. When two or more defendants are jointly
indicted, the court may direct a verdict of acquittal to be entered in favor of any one of
them against whom there is not, in the opinion of the court, evidence to put him on his defense;
and, being acquitted, he may be a witness. (Code 1852, §640; Code 1867, §4192; Code 1876,
§4894; Code 1886, §4478; Code 1896, §5302; Code 1907, §7899; Code 1923, §5637; Code 1940,
T. 15, §309.)...
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11-48-41
Section 11-48-41 Appeals to circuit court from assessments - Conduct generally; right of jury
trial; entry of judgment and assessment of costs generally. The civil action may be tried
on the record without other pleadings, and the court shall hear all objections of the property
owners to said assessment and the amount thereof and shall determine whether or not such assessment
exceeds the increased value of such property by reason of the special benefits derived from
the improvement, and shall enter judgment accordingly. Such civil action shall be tried by
the judge without a jury, unless a jury trial is demanded at the time of filing appeal, in
which event the action shall be tried by a jury as in other civil actions. In the event the
court or jury shall not sustain the assessment for the full amount, the costs of the appeal
and trial in the circuit court shall be adjudged against the municipality. (Code 1907, §1394;
Code 1923, §2209; Acts 1927, No. 639, p. 753; Code 1940, T. 37,...
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12-16-101
Section 12-16-101 Drawing, selection, and empaneling of juries in criminal cases - Where two
or more persons tried jointly. In case two or more persons are tried jointly, the district
attorney shall strike one, and each defendant shall have the right to strike off one name,
and they shall continue thus to strike off names until only 12 jurors remain, and the 12 jurors
thus selected shall be the jury charged with the trial of the defendants. (Acts 1919, No.
715, p. 1039; Code 1923, §8642; Code 1940, T. 30, §61.)...
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35-11-112
Section 35-11-112 Joinder of persons having liens on same property. (a) Persons having liens
under the provisions of this division, on the same property, may join in the same action for
the enforcement of their respective liens; and when there is such joinder, the court or jury
trying the action must ascertain the amount due to each of the plaintiffs secured by the lien,
and judgment must be rendered accordingly; but the failure of one or more of the plaintiffs
to establish his or their liens shall not defeat a recovery by the others. The proceeds of
the sale of the property levied on, if not sufficient to satisfy the demands of all the plaintiffs,
shall be distributed, after payment of the costs, pro rata among them. (b) When persons having
such liens on the same property refuse, after notice in writing, to join in such action, the
persons giving the notice may proceed without them on making affidavit of the fact of such
notice and refusal; and notice of the levy of the attachment...
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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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6-3-7
Section 6-3-7 Venue of actions - Against foreign and domestic corporations. (a) All civil actions
against corporations may be brought in any of the following counties: (1) In the county in
which a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred, or
a substantial part of real property that is the subject of the action is situated; or (2)
In the county of the corporation's principal office in this state; or (3) In the county in
which the plaintiff resided, or if the plaintiff is an entity other than an individual, where
the plaintiff had its principal office in this state, at the time of the accrual of the cause
of action, if such corporation does business by agent in the county of the plaintiff's residence;
or (4) If subdivisions (1), (2), or (3) do not apply, in any county in which the corporation
was doing business by agent at the time of the accrual of the cause of action. (b) The residence
of only any properly joined named class representative or...
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