12-21-225
Section 12-21-225 Testimony for state or defendant by convict. (a) The presiding judge of any
circuit court or district court having reason to believe that the testimony of any convict
serving a sentence in the penitentiary or to hard labor for the county is necessary in any
criminal prosecution for the state and that other evidence cannot be obtained on behalf of
the state may order a writ to be issued by the clerk, commanding the Board of Corrections
to have the convict before the court on a specified day to give testimony in the particular
case for the state. Moreover, upon the sworn petition of the defendant in a criminal prosecution
showing that a convict serving sentence in the penitentiary knows facts which would be beneficial
to him, the judge may, if he believes the ends of justice will be served thereby, order the
issuance of such a writ to secure the appearance of the convict to testify on behalf of the
defendant. The writ shall be served on the board at least one week...
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12-22-220
Section 12-22-220 By whom and when granted; duty of clerk of court. (a) A writ of error on
any judgment entered in a criminal case may issue on an order to that effect by any one of
the judges of the appropriate appellate court in vacation or by the appropriate appellate
court in term time, addressed to the clerk of the court in which the judgment was entered,
but such writ must only be granted on some error of law apparent on the record on appeal.
(b) On the filing of such order with the clerk of the court in which the judgment was entered,
such clerk must give the party filing it a certificate of the filing thereof, make out a writ
of error and a transcript of the record and proceedings had in the cause, attach his certificate
and the writ of error to such transcript and deliver the same, on demand, to the party suing
out the writ, or to his attorney. (Code 1876, §§4984, 4985; Code 1886, §§4516, 4517; Code
1896, §§4327, 4328; Code 1907, §§6258, 6259; Code 1923, §§3252,...
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12-22-24
Section 12-22-24 Bond on appeal of order removing executor or administrator. (a) No appeal
can be taken from any order of the probate court removing an executor or administrator unless
the applicant gives either a cash bond or a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties,
payable to the probate judge and in the amount fixed by him, not less than the amount of his
bond as executor or administrator, conditioned to prosecute the appeal to effect and, until
the same is decided, faithfully to discharge his duties as such executor or administrator.
(b) If such appeal is decided against the appellant, any cash bond posted or part thereof
may be ordered forfeited for costs, or, if other than a cash bond was given, execution for
costs may issue against him and the sureties on such bond, their names being certified with
the record to the appellate court. (c) Such bond also stands as security for the faithful
discharge of his duties as such executor or administrator, from the time the...
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15-21-24
Section 15-21-24 Grounds for discharge of person in custody under process legally issued. If
it appears that the party is in custody by virtue of process from any court legally constituted
or issued by any officer in the course of judicial proceedings before him authorized by law,
he can only be discharged under a writ of habeas corpus where: (1) The jurisdiction of such
court has been exceeded, either as to matter, place, sum or person; (2) Though the original
imprisonment was lawful, the party has become entitled to his discharge by reason of some
subsequent act, omission or event; (3) The process is void in consequence of some defect in
matter or substance required by law; (4) The process, though in proper form, was issued in
a case or under circumstances not allowed by law; (5) The process is not authorized by any
judgment, order or decree nor by any provision of the law; or (6) The person who has the custody
of him under any order or process is not the person authorized by law to...
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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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20-2-53
Section 20-2-53 Registration of persons manufacturing, distributing or dispensing controlled
substances - Order to show cause; proceedings; review; issuance of stay. (a) Before denying,
suspending, or revoking a registration or refusing a renewal of registration, the certifying
boards shall serve upon the applicant or registrant an order to show cause why registration
should not be denied, revoked, or suspended or why the renewal should not be refused. The
order to show cause shall contain a statement of the basis therefor and shall call upon the
applicant or registrant to appear before the certifying board at a time and place not less
than 30 days after the date of service of the order, but in the case of a denial of renewal
of registration the show cause order shall be served not later than 30 days before the expiration
of the registration. These proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the Alabama Administrative
Procedure Act and the procedures established by the respective...
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36-11-11
Section 36-11-11 Proceedings in Supreme Court - Powers of examiners as to witnesses. The examiner
or examiners so appointed shall have power to issue subpoenas for witnesses, which shall be
served by the sheriff of the proper county or by any special constable appointed by such examiner
or examiners, to compel the attendance of witnesses by attachment, to punish for contempt
by fine or imprisonment in the county jail and to administer oaths to witnesses, and the oaths
administered by such examiners shall, in all respects, be deemed and held to be lawful oaths.
(Code 1876, §4053; Code 1886, §4825; Code 1896, §4871; Code 1907, §7106; Code 1923, §4504;
Code 1940, T. 41, §185.)...
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36-11-14
Section 36-11-14 Proceedings in circuit court - When case stands for trial; conduct of trial
generally; right to jury trial. When the information is filed in the circuit court, if the
summons is served 20 days before the day specified in the order, such case shall stand for
trial on that day; and, if the summons is served less than 20 days before the day specified
in the order, then the court shall on the day specified in the order make an order setting
another day on which the defendant shall answer the information and the case stand for trial.
The case shall have precedence and priority over all other business in such court and, shall
be proceeded with in all respects as civil actions are conducted, with the right to either
party to except to the rulings of the court and to reserve such exceptions as in civil actions.
The defendant shall be entitled to a trial by jury on any issue of fact, whenever he demands
the same. (Code 1876, §4057; Code 1886, §4829; Code 1896, §4875; Code...
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43-2-173
Section 43-2-173 Resignation and removal - Generally. (a) The general administrator may be
removed for the same causes as other administrators. Such removal may be made by the judge
of probate without notice, but the grounds thereof must be entered on the minutes of the court.
(b) The resignation of the office of general administrator shall not operate to discharge
the incumbent from the administration of any estate previously committed to his charge as
such general administrator; but he may proceed, notwithstanding such resignation, to administer
and finally settle the same, as if he had not resigned such office; and the sureties on his
bond as general administrator shall be liable for every act of maladministration on such estate
committed after his resignation, to the same extent as if he had not resigned; but he may
be removed from the administration of such estate for any of the causes prescribed by law,
or he may resign his administration thereon by leave of the probate court of...
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43-2-192
Section 43-2-192 Appointment of nonresident executor - Filing of copies of will and letters
testamentary; bond and surety. When the will has been probated in another state or territory,
before issuing letters testamentary thereon to a nonresident executor, the judge of probate
must require him to file in court a copy of the will under which he is appointed, together
with a certificate of the judge of the court in which the will was probated, that such will
was regularly proved and established and that letters testamentary were issued to him thereon,
in accordance with the laws of the state or territory in which such original letters were
granted, and also to give bond and surety upon the same terms, conditions and requirements
as are required by law of citizens of this state. But if it shall appear from the will that
the testator, by an express provision therein, has exempted the applicant from giving bond
as executor, such bond must not be required, except in the cases specified in...
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