15-6-24
Section 15-6-24 Requiring security to keep the peace by defendant; when court appearance required;
form of undertaking. (a) If there is just reason to fear the commission of an offense, the
defendant must be required to give security to keep the peace, in such sum as the circuit,
district or municipal court judge may direct, towards all the people of this state, particularly
the person against whom or whose property there is reason to fear the offense may be committed,
for such time as the judge may direct, though not more than 12 nor less than six months; but
the defendant must not be required to appear at any court unless he has actually committed
an offense cognizable in such court. (b) The undertaking to keep the peace may be, in substance,
as follows: "The State of Alabama,} We (here insert the names of the defendant and his
sureties), agree to pay to the ___ County.} State of Alabama $1,000.00 (or such sum as the
judge directs) if the said (here insert name of the...
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15-6-25
Section 15-6-25 Discharge of defendant; commitment to jail; contents of commitment warrant.
(a) Upon an undertaking, with sufficient sureties being given, the defendant must be discharged;
and, if not given, the circuit, district or municipal court judge must commit him to jail
until he gives the same, specifying in the warrant of commitment the cause thereof, the time
he is required to keep the peace, towards whom particularly and the sum in which security
is required. (b) Any person committed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section
may be discharged by the sheriff of the county in which he is detained upon entering into
an undertaking to keep the peace, with sufficient sureties, in the sum and for the term required
by the circuit, district or municipal court judge. (Code 1852, §§416, 417; Code 1867, §§3965,
3966; Code 1876, §§4035, 4036; Code 1886, §§4689, 4690; Code 1896, §§5170, 5171; Code
1907, §§7529, 7530; Code 1923, §§5147, 5148; Code 1940, T. 15,...
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15-7-2
Section 15-7-2 Examination of complainant and witnesses; taking of depositions. (a) Upon a
complaint being made to a judge or magistrate that an offense has, in the opinion of the complainant,
been committed, the judge or magistrate must examine the complainant and such witnesses as
he may propose on oath, take their depositions in writing and cause them to be subscribed
by the person making them. (b) The depositions must set forth the facts stated by the complainant
and his witnesses tending to establish the commission of the offense and the guilt of the
defendant. (Code 1852, §§429, 430; Code 1867, §3978, 3979; Code 1876, §§4648, 4649; Code
1886, §§4256, 4257; Code 1896, §§5205, 5206; Code 1907, §§7585, 7586; Code 1923, §§5218,
5219; Code 1940, T. 15, §§120, 121.)...
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12-19-150
Section 12-19-150 Legislative intent; assessment of fees in criminal cases; submission of cost
bill by municipal or district court clerk and making of final assessment of costs in circuit
court upon appeals from municipal or district courts to circuit courts. (a) It is hereby declared
to be the policy of the state that docket fees and other court costs in criminal cases shall
generally be assessed only upon conviction. It is further declared to be the policy of the
state that a creditor shall not use the criminal process in order to collect civil debts.
The state does recognize that situations will arise from time to time wherein justice may
best be served by allowing a judge to enter an order dismissing a case upon the payment of
costs by the defendant or by the complainant where the judge has determined that the criminal
process has been abused. (b) Docket fees and other court costs in criminal cases shall be
assessed upon conviction; provided that, in the interest of justice,...
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15-6-40
Section 15-6-40 Appeal to circuit court; form of undertaking on appeal. (a) Any person required
to keep the peace under the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter by any judge other than
a judge of an appellate or circuit court is entitled, on entering into an undertaking with
sufficient sureties in a sum equal to that required of him to keep the peace for the prosecution
of an appeal and in the meantime to keep the peace, to an appeal to the circuit court of the
county. The judge from whose order the appeal is taken may require such witnesses as he thinks
necessary to enter into an undertaking, in the sum of $100.00 each, to appear at such court.
(b) Any person committed to jail by any such judge for failing to give security to keep the
peace may appeal to the circuit court and may thereupon be discharged from custody on giving
bond with surety, in such penalty as the judge may prescribe, conditioned for his appearance
at such court and to keep the peace towards all the people of the...
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16-25-23
Section 16-25-23 Exemptions from execution; recovery actions. (a) Except as provided in subsection
(b), the right of a person to a pension; an annuity, or a retirement allowance; to the return
of contributions; the pension, annuity or retirement allowance itself; any optional benefit
or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter;
and the monies in the various funds created by this chapter are hereby exempt from any state
or municipal tax and exempt from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment or any other process
whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as in this chapter specifically otherwise provided.
(b)(1) Restitution, fines, court costs, fees, or any other financial obligations in a criminal
case ordered by a circuit or district court judge in this state are not subject to the exemption
set out in subsection (a), provided all of the following are satisfied: a. The amount of the
restitution ordered is in the amount of one thousand...
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32-6-18
Section 32-6-18 Penalties - Violations in general; disposition of funds. (a) Any person of
whom a driver's license is required, who drives a motor vehicle on a public highway in this
state without first having complied with this article or the rules and regulations promulgated
hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction shall be punished by a fine
of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), to be fixed in
the discretion of the judge trying the case. In addition to all fines, fees, costs, and punishments
prescribed by law, there shall be imposed or assessed an additional penalty of fifty dollars
($50). This additional penalty of fifty dollars ($50) imposed pursuant to this subsection
shall be assessed in all criminal and quasi-criminal proceedings in municipal, district, and
circuit courts, including, but not limited to, final bond forfeitures, municipal ordinance
violations wherein the defendant is adjudged guilty or pleads guilty,...
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15-21-13
Section 15-21-13 Notice to district attorney, prosecutor or arrestor required when criminal
charge; bail without notice. If it appears from the petition for a writ of habeas corpus or
from the documents thereunto annexed that the party is imprisoned and detained on any criminal
charge or accusation, the officer issuing the writ must endorse thereon an order requiring
the applicant, or someone else for him, to give notice to the district attorney of the circuit
or to the prosecutor or principal agent in procuring the arrest of the issue of the writ and
of the time and place at which it is returnable. If such notice is not given when the district
attorney or other person entitled to it is within 50 miles of the place of examination, the
party who is imprisoned must not be discharged. But, if the party is charged with an offense
which is bailable and he waives an examination into the facts, the judge may fix the amount
of bail, without notice to the district attorney or prosecutor, and in...
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6-6-590
Section 6-6-590 Right of action and venue - Vacating charter or annulling existence of corporation.
(a) An action may be commenced under this article, in the name of the state, against the offending
corporation, on the information of any person for the purpose of vacating the charter or annulling
the existence of any corporation, other than municipal, whenever such corporation: (1) Offends
against any of the acts creating, altering, or renewing such corporation; (2) Violates the
provisions of any law, by which such corporation forfeits its charter, by abuse of its powers;
(3) Has forfeited its privileges or franchises by failure to exercise its powers; (4) Has
done or omitted any act which amounts to a surrender of its corporate rights, privileges,
and franchises; or (5) Exercises a franchise or privilege not conferred on it by law. (b)
The judge of the circuit court, whenever he believes that any of the acts or omissions specified
in subsection (a) of this section can be proved and it...
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12-19-193
Section 12-19-193 Fees for inquest; fees, etc., for postmortem examinations; payment of fees
to coroners for services rendered in discharging duties of sheriff. (a) Fees for holding inquest
shall be paid out of the county treasury, when the inquest has been held under the order of
a judge of a court of record or district attorney, and such fees must be also certified by
the coroner to the clerk of the circuit court of the county and must be taxed as costs against
any person who is convicted for killing the person on whose body the inquest was held and
be collected like other costs in criminal cases and, when collected in cases in which the
county has paid the same, shall be paid to the county treasurer for the use of the county
and, in other cases, to the coroner. (b) No fees shall be paid for an inquest when it is publicly
known before the jury is summoned who caused the death of the deceased or when the slayer
has been arrested for the homicide; but, in such case, if the immediate...
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