31-2-115
Section 31-2-115 Dispersion of mob, etc. - Order to disperse. Before using military force in
the dispersion of any riot, rout, tumult, mob, or other lawless or unlawful assembly or combination
mentioned in this chapter, it shall be the duty of the civil officer calling out such military
force, or some other conservator of the peace or, if none be present, then of the officer
in command of the troops or some person by him deputed, to command the persons composing such
riotous, tumultuous, or unlawful assemblage or mob to disperse and retire peacefully to their
respective abodes and businesses; but, in no case, shall it be necessary to use any set or
particular form of words in ordering the dispersion of any riotous, tumultuous, or unlawful
assembly, nor shall any such command be necessary where the officer or person, in order to
give it, would necessarily be put in imminent danger of loss of life or great bodily harm,
or where such unlawful assembly or riot is engaged in the commission...
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31-2-117
Section 31-2-117 Dispersion of mob, etc. - Authority to act to disperse mob, etc. After any
person or persons composing or taking part, or about to take part, in any riot, mob, rout,
assault, or unlawful combination or assembly mentioned in this chapter shall have been duly
commanded to disperse or where the circumstances are such that no such command is required
under the provisions of this chapter, the commander in charge of such military forces, within
the limits provided in his instructions, shall take such steps and make such disposition for
the arrest, dispersion, or quelling of the persons composing or taking part in such mob, riot,
tumult, outbreak, or unlawful combination or assembly mentioned in this chapter as may be
deemed requisite to that end, and, if, in doing so, any person is killed, wounded, or otherwise
injured, or any property injured or destroyed by any officer or member of the National Guard
or other person lawfully aiding them, such members of the National Guard...
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31-2-111
Section 31-2-111 Ordering out of troops - Request to Governor by local officials. Whenever
any circuit court judge, municipal court judge, probate court judge, sheriff, or mayor of
any incorporated city, town, or village, shall have reasonable cause to apprehend the outbreak
of any riot, rout, tumult, mob, or combination to oppose the enforcement of the laws by force
or violence, within the jurisdiction in which such officer is by law a conservator of the
peace, which cannot be speedily suppressed or effectually prevented by the ordinary posse
comitatus and peace officers, it shall forthwith become the duty of such judge, sheriff, or
mayor, to report the facts and circumstances in writing or verbally to the Governor or his
authorized representative, and request him to order out such portion of the National Guard
of the state as may be necessary to enforce the laws and preserve the peace. It shall thereafter
be the duty of the Governor, if he deems such apprehension well-founded, to...
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36-21-20
Section 36-21-20 Governor authorized to call out municipal police to preserve peace, etc.,
within state in case of riots, etc. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction
of the Governor that there has occurred or there is reasonable cause to apprehend at any place
within the state the outbreak of any riot, rout, tumult, insurrection, mob or combination
to oppose the enforcement of the laws or to break the peace by force or violence which cannot
be speedily suppressed or effectually prevented by the ordinary posse comitatus and peace
officers or there shall be an assemblage of persons over 10 in number with intent to commit
a felony or to offer violence to person or property or with intent to oppose or resist by
force or violence the execution of the laws of the state or any lawful process of any court
or officer thereof or the due execution of any legal ordinance or bylaw of any municipal corporation
and that there is not present at the locality a sufficient force of peace...
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31-2-116
Section 31-2-116 Dispersion of mob, etc. - Order to disperse - Failure to obey order. Any person
or persons composing or taking part in any riot, rout, tumult, mob, or lawless combination
or assembly mentioned in Section 31-2-115 who, after being duly commanded to disperse as provided
in Section 31-2-115, wilfully and intentionally fails to do so, is guilty of a felony, and
must, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one, nor more than
two years. (Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 143, p. 105; Code 1940, T. 35, §164; Acts 1973, No.
1038, p. 1572, §117.)...
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31-2-122
Section 31-2-122 Regulation of passage and occupancy on streets, etc., during riot, etc. Whenever
any rout, riot, or mob has occurred or is in progress or is so imminent that any portion of
the National Guard is, or has been, called out for the performance of any duty under the provisions
of this chapter, it shall be lawful for the commanding officer of the National Guard, if it
be deemed advisable in subduing or preventing such mob, riot, or outbreak thereof, to prohibit
all persons from occupying or passing on any street, road, or place, where the same is threatened,
or where the National Guard may be for the time being, and otherwise to regulate passage and
occupancy of such streets and places. Any person, after being duly informed of such prohibition
or regulation, who wilfully and intentionally, without lawful excuse, attempts to go or remain
on such street, road, or place, and fails to depart after being warned to do so, is guilty
of a misdemeanor, and in such cases the officer...
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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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15-21-27
Section 15-21-27 Penalty - Unlawful detention or arrest after discharge order; civil action
for damages. Any officer or other person who has the custody of a party produced on habeas
corpus and who detains him after an order of the court or judge for his discharge or enlargement
or afterwards arrests him without a legal and proper cause, warrant or other process shall
be fined, on conviction thereof, not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00, and is also responsible
in a civil action for any damages the party may have sustained. (Code 1852, §738; Code 1867,
§4289; Code 1876, §4965; Code 1886, §4788; Code 1896, §4841; Code 1907, §7036; Code 1923,
§4335; Code 1940, T. 15, §31.)...
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31-2-124
Section 31-2-124 Commanders of National Guard troops may order closing of certain places and
forbid sale of certain commodities. When any part of the National Guard of Alabama is in active
service by order of the Governor or other civil authority to aid in the enforcement of the
laws, in cases of insurrection, invasion, riot, or imminent threat thereof, or disaster, the
commanding officers of such troops may order the closing of any places where intoxicating
liquors, arms, ammunition, dynamite, or other explosives are sold, and forbid the selling,
bartering, lending, or giving away of any of the commodities in the city, town, or village
where the troops are on duty, or in the vicinity of such place, or for so long as any of the
troops remain on duty in the vicinity. Such orders shall take effect whether any civil officer
has issued a similar order or not, and the commanding officer of such troops may continue
the prohibition in force until the departure of the troops, although the...
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12-1-8
Section 12-1-8 Cases in which courts may issue attachments and inflict summary punishment for
contempt. The powers of the several courts in this state to issue attachments and inflict
summary punishment for contempts shall not extend to any other cases than: (1) Disrespectful,
contemptuous or insolent behavior in court, tending in any way to diminish or impair the respect
due to judicial tribunals or to interrupt the due course of trial; (2) A breach of the peace,
boisterous conduct, violent disturbance or any other act calculated to disturb or obstruct
the administration of justice, committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as
to have that effect; (3) The misbehavior of any officer of the court in his official transactions
or the disobedience or resistance of any officer of the court, party, juror, witness or any
other person to any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree or command thereof; (4) Deceit
or the abuse of the process of the proceedings of the court by...
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