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15-21-6
Section 15-21-6 To whom petition addressed. (a) When the person is confined in a county jail
or any other place on a charge of felony or under a commitment or an indictment for felony,
the petition for a writ of habeas corpus must be addressed to the nearest circuit court judge.
(b) When the person is confined in the penitentiary or under a sentence, judgment or order
of the supreme court or the circuit court, other than an indictment for felony, the petition
must be addressed to the nearest circuit court judge. (c) In all other cases, it may be addressed
to any one of them, and when the person is confined in any other place than the county jail
or the penitentiary and on any other than a criminal charge, it may be addressed to any circuit
court judge. (Code 1852, §713; Code 1867, §4264; Code 1876, §4940; Code 1886, §4764; Code
1896, §4817; Code 1907, §7012; Code 1923, §4310; Code 1940, T. 15, §6.)...
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15-21-8
Section 15-21-8 Writ to be granted without delay; to whom writ returnable. (a) The judge to
whom the application for a writ of habeas corpus is made must grant the same without delay,
unless it appears from the petition itself or from the documents thereunto annexed that the
person imprisoned or restrained is not entitled to the benefit of the writ under the provisions
of this chapter. (b) When the person is confined in the penitentiary, the writ must be made
returnable before the circuit court of the county in which the convict is confined, but if
the writ is granted more than 10 days before the time fixed for the holding of such court,
it must be made returnable before the nearest circuit court judge. When a person is a patient
or confined in any hospital in the state, the writ must be made returnable before the circuit
court of the county in which the hospital is located in which he is so confined. In all other
cases, the writ must be made returnable before the officer by whom it is...
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22-52-37
Section 22-52-37 Standards for conduct of civil commitment proceedings generally; minimum standards
for civil commitment; appeals from orders of probate courts as to commitment. (a) Any civil
commitment proceedings are to be conducted in accordance with the following constitutional
due process standards: (1) Adequate notice of the hearing and its purpose shall be given sufficiently
in advance of the scheduled proceedings to permit a reasonable opportunity to prepare therefor.
(2) The person to be committed shall have the right to attend the hearing unless the court,
after appropriate inquiry, determines that he or she is so mentally or physically ill as to
be incapable of attendance. (3) The subject of the hearing shall be informed of his right
to counsel and to the appointment of counsel if indigent. Where the commitment of a presently
confined patient is sought, a guardian ad litem who is an attorney shall be appointed. (4)
The guardian ad litem shall be entitled to a reasonable fee...
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15-16-20
Section 15-16-20 Duty of judge to institute investigation on sanity of certain confined persons;
proceedings where person found insane. If any person other than a minor in confinement, under
indictment, for want of bail for good behavior, for keeping the peace or appearing as a witness,
in consequence of any summary conviction appears to be insane, the judge of the circuit court
of the county where he is confined must institute a careful investigation, call a respectable
physician and call other credible witnesses; and, if he deems it necessary, he may call a
jury, for which purpose he is empowered to compel attendance of witnesses and jurors. If it
is satisfactorily proved that the person is insane, the judge may discharge him from imprisonment
and order his safe custody and removal to the Alabama state hospitals, where he must remain
until restored to his right mind, and then, if the judge shall have so directed, the superintendent
must inform the judge and sheriff, whereupon the...
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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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12-15-102
Section 12-15-102 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have
the following meanings: (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age or older. (2) AFTERCARE.
Conditions and supervision as the juvenile court orders after release from the Department
of Youth Services. (3) CHILD. An individual under the age of 18 years, or under 21 years of
age and before the juvenile court for a delinquency matter arising before that individual's
18th birthday, or under 19 years of age and before the juvenile court for a child in need
of supervision matter or commitment to the State Department of Mental Health or under 19 years
of age and before the juvenile court for a proceeding initiated under Section 12-15-115(b)(2).
Where a delinquency petition alleges that an individual, prior to the individual's 18th birthday,
has committed an offense for which there is no statute of limitation pursuant to Section 15-3-5,
the term child also shall include the individual subject to the...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment set
forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient, and analogous
forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY. The
State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county charge
that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the following
forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney of
the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary to
law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the
unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales
of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised),
which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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3-1-29
Section 3-1-29 Activities relating to fighting of dogs prohibited; punishment; violations;
confiscation; procedures for disposition of animals; bond for the care of seized dog; forfeiture.
(a) It shall be a Class C felony for any person to do any of the following: (1) To own, possess,
keep, or train any dog with the intent that such dog shall be engaged in an exhibition of
fighting with another dog. (2) For amusement or gain, to cause any dog to fight with another
dog, or cause any dogs to injure each other. (3) To permit any act in violation of subdivisions
(1) and (2) of this subsection. (b) It shall be a Class C felony for any person to be knowingly
present, as a spectator, at any place, building, or tenement where preparations are being
made for an exhibition of the fighting of dogs, with the intent to be present at such preparations,
or to be knowingly present at such exhibition or to knowingly aid or abet another in such
exhibition. (c) Any dog used to fight other dogs in...
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45-4-233
Section 45-4-233 Work Release board; powers and duties; work release fund; escape of inmates
from custody. In Bibb County, the sheriff shall execute every order from every court in Bibb
County to subpoena witnesses as provided in Section 12-21-180, or the service may be made
by first class mail as follows: It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county to enclose
the subpoenas in an envelope addressed to the person to be served and place all necessary
postage and a return address thereon. In the event the witness subpoena is returned to the
sheriff by the post office department of the United States without delivery, the subpoena
shall be by the sheriff returned NOT FOUND. All witness subpoenas not returned to the sheriff
by the post office department shall be considered for all purposes as sufficient personal
and legal service. It is specifically provided, however, that, if the party calling a witness
expressly requests in writing that the subpoena be delivered to such witness...
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12-15-208
Section 12-15-208 Facilities to be used for detention or shelter care of children generally;
when child may be detained in jail or other facility for detention of adults; notification
of juvenile court, when child received at facility for detention of adult offenders or persons
charged with crimes; development of statewide system; Department of Youth Services to subsidize
detention in regional facilities, may contract for detention; transfer of child to detention
facility, when case transferred from juvenile court for criminal prosecution. (a) Persons
who shall not be detained or confined in secure custody include all of the following: (1)
STATUS OFFENDERS. Effective October 1, 2009, status offenders, as defined in this article,
shall not be detained or confined in secure custody, except that a status offender who is
charged with or who commits a violation of a valid court order may be detained in secure custody
in a juvenile detention facility for up to 72 hours in any six-month...
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