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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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15-5-40
Section 15-5-40 stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records access;
pen registers and trap and trace devices. (a) The definitions, prohibitions, authorizations,
and procedures regarding access to stored wire and electronic communications and transactional
records and the installation or use of pen registers or trap and trace devices shall be adopted
and coextensive with the provisions of the federal law defined at Chapters 121 and 206 of
Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2701-2712 and 3121-3127, and as those provisions may
hereafter be amended. (b) Emergency pen registers and trap and trace devices may be installed
pursuant to the provisions of the federal law defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section
3125, as it may hereafter be amended, provided the investigative or law enforcement officer
declaring the emergency has been specially authorized and designated in writing by the Attorney
General, district attorney, or city attorney, if authorized to...
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8-15-13
Section 8-15-13 Public hearing on operations; notice of hearing; sworn testimony heard; authority
to subpoena witnesses; witness fees; production of books and records; appearance in person
or by counsel; failure to obey process; rules of evidence not applicable. (a) In the event
the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is of the opinion that a condition exists which
would jeopardize the interest of persons patronizing, or who may patronize, a public warehouse
by reason of the manner in which such public warehouse is being operated or that the same
is being operated without having complied with the laws or rules and regulations relating
to the operation of public warehouses, he shall order a public hearing thereon, to be held
in the office of the commissioner at Montgomery or at the courthouse of the county in which
the warehouse is being operated, to determine what action shall be taken relative to the said
warehouse. (b) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture...
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15-21-3
Section 15-21-3 Persons entitled to prosecute writ - Persons confined as insane. Any person
confined as insane may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus as provided in this chapter; and,
if the judge or the jury, when the petitioner demands the issues arising to be tried by a
jury, shall decide at the hearing that the person is insane, such decision does not bar a
second application alleging that such person has been restored to sanity. (Code 1897, §4814;
Code 1907, §7009; Code 1923, §4307; Code 1940, T. 15, §3.)...
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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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15-6-20
Section 15-6-20 Examination of complainant and witnesses; form of affidavit. (a) Whenever complaint
is made to a judge of a circuit, district or municipal court that any person has threatened
or is about to commit an offense on the person or property of another, such judge must examine
the complainant and any witness he may produce on oath, reduce such examination to writing
and cause it to be subscribed by the party so examined. (b) The affidavit may be after the
following form: "State of Alabama, ___ County. Before me, ___,a (circuit, district or
municipal) judge (setting out his name and office) in and for said county and state, personally
appeared A. B., who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that C. D. has threatened to assault
and beat him (or is about) to ___ (here set forth the particular offense threatened or about
to be committed) on the person or property of affiant (or E. F., a third person, as the case
may be.) (Signed) A. B. Sworn to and subscribed...
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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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17-16-70
Section 17-16-70 Commission has power to punish for contempt. If any witness, being summoned,
fails to attend, or being summoned with a subpoena duces tecum, fails and refuses to produce
the paper or document required to be produced by the subpoena, the commission shall have the
right and authority to punish the witness for contempt by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in any county jail in the state for a period not to exceed
30 days, one or both, and in case any witness shall fail to appear or produce any book or
document before any judge, clerk of court, or other person having a warrant from the commission,
the judge, clerk of court, or other person, must certify the fact to the commission, which
may thereupon punish such witness for contempt, as provided in this section. (Code 1896, §1679;
Code 1907, §485; Code 1923, §575; Code 1940, T. 17, §261; §17-15-57; amended and renumbered
by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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15-16-21
Section 15-16-21 Suspension of felony trial to inquire into accused's sanity; proceedings upon
jury findings; resumption of proceedings when sanity restored; release restriction. If any
person charged with any felony is held in confinement under indictment and the trial court
shall have reasonable ground to doubt his sanity, the trial of such person for such offense
shall be suspended until the jury shall inquire into the fact of such sanity, such jury to
be impaneled from the regular jurors in attendance for the week or from a special venire,
as the court may direct. If the jury shall find the accused sane at the time of its verdict,
it shall make no other inquiry, and the trial in chief shall proceed. If it finds that he
is insane at that time, the court shall make an order committing him to the Alabama state
hospitals, where he must remain until he is restored to his right mind. When the superintendent
of the hospitals shall be of opinion that such person is so restored, he shall...
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1-1-1
Section 1-1-1 Meaning of certain words and terms. The following words, whenever they appear
in this Code, shall have the signification attached to them in this section unless otherwise
apparent from the context: (1) PERSON. The word "person" includes a corporation
as well as a natural person. (2) WRITING. The word "writing" includes typewriting
and printing on paper. (3) OATH. The word "oath" includes affirmation. (4) SIGNATURE
or SUBSCRIPTION. The words "signature" or "subscription" include a mark
when the person cannot write, if his name is written near the mark, and witnessed by a person
who writes his own name as a witness, and include with respect to corporate securities facsimile
signature placed upon any instrument or writing with intent to execute or authenticate such
instrument or writing. (5) LUNATIC, INSANE or NON COMPOS MENTIS. The words "lunatic"
or "insane" or the term "non compos mentis" include all persons of unsound
mind. (6) PROPERTY. The word "property" includes both...
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