12-16-74
Section 12-16-74 Hearing of excuses, claims of exemptions, etc.; drawing, swearing and empaneling
of grand and petit jurors. The court shall require the names to be called from the venire
list of all persons who have been served with a summons to appear in court that day for service
as jurors and whose service has not been previously excused or postponed. The court may hear
any excuses not previously heard and shall pass upon the qualifications of those in attendance
for grand jury service. The court may in any case, including capital cases, excuse or postpone
the service of any prospective juror outside the presence of the parties and their counsel
in accordance with the provisions for excusal contained in Section 12-16-63. If a grand jury
is to be empaneled, the court shall draw from the venire list on a random basis the names
of 18 persons qualified and in attendance who shall be sworn and empaneled as the grand jury.
If a petit jury is also to be empaneled, all qualified persons...
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12-16-145
Section 12-16-145 Alternate juror selection and qualification plan; master list; random selection;
disqualification. Notwithstanding any provision of Title 12, Chapter 16, the presiding circuit
judge, with the consent of the circuit judges of the court, may elect to utilize the following
alternate juror selection and qualification plan after notice to the Administrative Director
of Courts, which eliminates the master jury box and the interposition of the jury commission
in the qualifying process, and embraces and combines the qualification and summoning process,
as follows: The jury commission shall meet and cause to be compiled and maintained a master
list of persons in the county, together with their residence addresses, who may be called
for jury service. The list shall be compiled and maintained, avoiding duplication as far as
possible, from one or more of the sources named in Section 12-16-57 to include persons whose
listings will foster the policy and protect the rights provided...
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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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12-16-75
Section 12-16-75 Duration of service; summons for subsequent service. (a) Once selected, a
juror shall serve on the jury for the duration of the trial unless excused by the presiding
judge. (b) A juror who has served on a petit jury in this state shall not be summoned to serve
again as a petit juror in any court of this state for 24 months following the last day of
service. (Act 2005-311, 1st Sp. Sess., §2.)...
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12-16-70
Section 12-16-70 Names of prospective jurors provided from master jury list; preparation of
list; summons. When jurors, grand or petit, are needed for court, the judge, or where there
are more than one, then any one of the judges of the court, shall at a time within his or
her discretion, but at least 20 days prior to the date on which the prospective jurors are
to serve, draw or cause to be provided from the master jury list compiled pursuant to Rule
40, Alabama Rules of Judicial Administration, the names of prospective jurors in a number
the judge deems sufficient to obtain the juries needed for the period for which the names
are drawn; provided, however, if prior to the date of service, it appears that an insufficient
number of prospective jurors summoned will be available to constitute the juries for the period
for which they were summoned, the court shall cause the names of additional prospective jurors
to be provided and to be summoned for service forthwith. The names so provided...
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12-19-210
Section 12-19-210 Grand and petit jurors generally. (a) Regular jurors, grand and petit, shall
be entitled to $10.00 expense allowance for each day's services, $.05 for each mile traveled
in going to and returning from court and ferriage and toll, to be proved by the oath of the
juror before the clerk of the court. The clerk shall give each juror a certificate, stating
therein the number of days he has served, the number of miles he has traveled, the amount
of ferriage and toll he has paid and the amount of expense allowance to which he is entitled.
The certificate shall be payable out of the State Treasury. (b) The provisions of this section
shall be retroactive to May 23, 1977. (Code 1852, §794; Code 1867, §4345; Code 1876, §5049;
Code 1886, §4883; Code 1896, §4580; Code 1907, §6657; Acts 1919, No. 35, p. 39; Code 1923,
§3760; Code 1940, T. 11, §98; Acts 1947, No. 297, p. 148; Acts 1951, No. 625, p. 1079, §3;
Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §16-154; Acts 1977, No. 759, p....
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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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12-16-207
Section 12-16-207 Grand juror not to participate, etc., in deliberations as to offenses committed
against his person or property, etc.; supplying of deficiency in number of grand jurors resulting
therefrom. (a) A grand juror must not be present at or take any part in the deliberations
of his fellow jurors respecting any public offense with which he is charged or which was committed
against his person or property or when he is a prosecutor or when he is connected by blood
or marriage with the person charged. (b) If, by reason of the provisions of subsection (a)
of this section, the number of grand jurors is reduced below 13 in the investigation of any
matter, the court must supply the deficiency from the qualified jurors of the county, and
the persons so placed on the grand jury must serve only during such investigation. (Code 1852,
§§548, 549; Code 1867, §§4098,4099; Code 1876, §§4771, 4772; Code 1886, §§4357, 4358;
Code 1896, §§5043, 5044; Code 1907, §§7304, 7305; Code...
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12-16-8
Section 12-16-8 Employees excused from employment; compensation; postponement of service. (a)
Upon receiving a summons to report for jury duty, any employee, on the next day he or she
is engaged in his or her employment, shall exhibit the summons to his or her immediate superior,
and the employee shall thereupon be excused from his or her employment for the day or days
required of him or her in serving as a juror in any court created by the constitutions of
the United States or of the State of Alabama or the laws of the United States or of the State
of Alabama. (b) An employee may not be required or requested to use annual, vacation, unpaid
leave, or sick leave for time spent responding to a summons for jury duty, time spent participating
in the jury selection process, or for time spent actually serving on a jury. Nothing in this
subsection shall be construed to require an employer to provide annual, vacation, or sick
leave to employees who otherwise are not entitled to the benefits...
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12-17-184
Section 12-17-184 Powers and duties generally. It is the duty of every district attorney and
assistant district attorney, within the circuit, county, or other territory for which he or
she is elected or appointed: (1) To attend on the grand juries, advise them in relation to
matters of law, and examine and swear witnesses before them. (2) To draw up all indictments
and to prosecute all indictable offenses. (3) To prosecute and defend any civil action in
the circuit court in the prosecution or defense of which the state is interested. (4) To inquire
whether registers have performed the duty required of them by Section 12-17-117 and shall,
in every case of failure, move against the register as provided by subsection (b) of Section
12-17-114. (5) If a criminal prosecution is removed from a court of his or her circuit, county,
or division of a county to a court of the United States, to appear in that court and represent
the state; and, if it is impracticable, consistent with his or her...
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