12-21-184
Section 12-21-184 Securing attendance of witnesses until case disposed of. In all civil cases where the case is not decided at the first session, witnesses who have been served with subpoenas must not again be summoned by the clerk for further attendance, unless otherwise directed by the party originally summoning them, but such witnesses are bound to attend from session to session until the case is disposed of. If a judgment is entered in the case which is reversed on appeal, new subpoenas must be issued when the case is reset for trial; provided, however, that in the circuit court of counties having a population of 400,000 or more, according to the last or any subsequent federal census, the clerk of the said court must subpoena witnesses to attend court at each regular setting of a case after said witnesses have once been ordered summoned by the party, unless otherwise directed by said party originally summoning them. (Code 1852, §2306; Code 1867, §2708; Code 1876, §3063; Code...
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15-21-32
Section 15-21-32 Proceedings against defaulting witnesses. If any witness duly subpoenaed under the provisions of this chapter fails to attend as required, the judge before whom the writ of habeas corpus is returnable must endorse such failure on the back of the subpoena and deliver it to the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the examination is had; and the same proceedings must be had thereon as against defaulting witnesses in that court, the endorsement being presumptive evidence of such default. (Code 1852, §743; Code 1867, §4294; Code 1876, §4970; Code 1886, §4793; Code 1896, §4846; Code 1907, §7041; Code 1923, §4340; Code 1940, T. 15, §36.)...
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15-4-4
Section 15-4-4 Service of subpoenas; proceedings against defaulting witnesses; endorsement as presumptive evidence of default. (a) In an inquest under this chapter, the sheriff or any constable must serve subpoenas for witnesses or they may be served by the coroner. (b) If any witness, being subpoenaed, fails to attend, the coroner must endorse on the subpoena his default, sign his name thereto and return the same to the clerk of the circuit court of the county within five days thereafter, and such witness must be proceeded against in such court, in the name of the state, as if he were a defaulter therein, the endorsement of the coroner being presumptive evidence of the default. (Code 1852, §815; Code 1867, §4366; Code 1876, §3994; Code 1886, §4804; Code 1896, §4927; Code 1907, §7165; Code 1923, §4560; Code 1940, T. 15, §79.)...
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12-16-44
Section 12-16-44 Preparation, etc., of separate jury rolls and boxes for courts of territorial subdivisions of counties. Whenever a court requiring grand and petit juries or petit juries is established for and held in a territorial subdivision of the county, the jury commission shall make and keep a separate roll and make a separate box for that court and territorial subdivision, on which roll and in which box only the names of jurors residing in that territory shall be placed, which box shall be kept by the clerk of said court and the key thereof by the judge of said court, and all jurors for that court shall be drawn by the judge of said court as provided in this article from the separate jury box provided under this section and shall be summoned as provided by law for summoning jurors otherwise drawn. The names of jurors whose names are required to be placed on the roll and in the box provided for in this section shall not be placed on any other roll nor in any other box nor shall...
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33-4-42
Section 33-4-42 Revocation or suspension of license for cause - Failure of witness to answer subpoena. On the failure to answer such subpoenas when so served, such witness shall forfeit the sum of $50.00, for which the said commission may, in its own name, bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction. (Acts 1931, No. 81, p. 154, §19; Code 1940, T. 38, §67.)...
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40-2-20
Section 40-2-20 Witnesses - Incriminating testimony; perjury. No witness shall be excused from attending or testifying or from producing books, papers, records, accounts, and other documents before the department or in obedience to the subpoena issued by or in the name of the department on the ground or for the reason that the testimony, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted or subject to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the commission or in obedience to its subpoena, but no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §137.)...
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41-9-67
Section 41-9-67 Powers, etc., of board as to requirement of production of documents, etc., generally; employment of clerical, etc., help for investigation of claims, etc. (a) The Board of Adjustment shall have the power and it shall be its duty when any claim or claims for damages provided for in this division are presented to it to require any employee, agency, commission, board, institution or department of the State of Alabama to furnish any documents or information deemed necessary by the Board of Adjustment and to require the presence of any person or the production of any documents in the same manner as in circuit court trials with the same rights as the circuit courts to punish for contempt. (b) With the approval of the Governor and subject to the provisions of the Merit System, the Board of Adjustment may employ such necessary clerical or other help in ascertaining the facts incident to or growing out of claims presented to it and to make such investigations and to interview...
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45-22-120.10
Section 45-22-120.10 Grievance procedure. (a) An employee shall have the right to appeal any disciplinary action taken against him or her, provided, however, that an employee on probationary status shall have no such right unless such employee shall have had permanent status in some other position at the time he or she was appointed to his or her present position. An employee desiring to appeal any disciplinary action directed against him or her shall first exhaust all administrative remedy as provided by policy of the commission. Upon exhausting all administrative remedy, the employee shall then file his or her grievance in writing with the commission within seven calendar days of the last final administrative action on his or her grievance, and shall request a hearing before the personnel board. Within seven calendar days after the receipt of the grievance, the commission shall file with the chair of the board and mail to the employee by certified mail a statement specifying the...
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28-4-316
Section 28-4-316 Grand jury proceedings generally - Effect of failure of person to attend and testify in obedience to summons. Any person who is summoned as a witness before the grand jury to answer as to any violation of law for the suppression of intemperance or prohibiting the manufacture, sale or other disposition of prohibited liquors or beverages or the keeping or maintaining of any unlawful drinking place, or liquor nuisance and who fails or refuses to attend and testify in obedience to such summons without good cause, to be determined by the court, is guilty of contempt and also of a misdemeanor and, on conviction of such misdemeanor, must be fined not less than $20.00 nor more than $300.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than three months, at the discretion of the court. (Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Code 1923, §4633; Code 1940, T. 29, §109.)...
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34-9-46
Section 34-9-46 Subpoenas and testimony. In all matters pending before it, the board shall have the power to issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of all necessary papers, books, and records, documentary evidence and materials or other evidence. Any person failing or refusing to appear or testify regarding any matter about which he or she may be lawfully questioned or to produce any papers, books, records, documentary evidence, or materials or other evidence in the matter to be heard, after having been required by order of the board or by a subpoena of the board to do so, may, upon application by the board to any circuit judge of the State of Alabama, be ordered to comply therewith; and, upon failure to comply with the order of the circuit judge, the court may compel obedience by attachment as for contempt as in case of disobedience of a similar order or subpoena issued by the court. The president, in a writing filed with the board, may designate and...
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