(a) An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy or is dead or is alive, made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by any law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as prima facie evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy or is dead or is alive, as the case may be.
(b) For the purpose of this section, any report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, purporting to have been signed by such an officer or employee of the United States as is described in said section, shall prima facie be deemed to have been signed and issued by such an officer or employee pursuant to law, and the person signing same shall prima facie be deemed to have acted within the scope of his authority. If a copy purports to have been certified by a person authorized by law to certify the same, such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of his authority so to certify.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Division 4 - Weight and Sufficiency.
Section 12-21-90 - Official Notice of Armed Forces Death.
Section 12-21-91 - Official Report of Person Missing, etc.; Presumption of Signer's Authority.
Section 12-21-92 - Secretary of State's Publication of Foreign Interest Rates.
Section 12-21-93 - Statutes of Other States and Territories.
Section 12-21-94 - Transcripts of Congressional Acts and Foreign Statutes.
Section 12-21-95 - Municipal Ordinances, Bylaws, and Resolutions.
Section 12-21-96 - Land Patents.
Section 12-21-98 - Certificates and Transcripts as Evidence of Land Title and Facts.
Section 12-21-99 - Recitals in Sheriff's Deed.
Section 12-21-100 - Judgments.
Section 12-21-101 - Certified Registers of Marriages, Births, and Deaths.
Section 12-21-102 - Copies of Letters Testamentary, Administration, and Guardianship.
Section 12-21-103 - Transcribed Records.
Section 12-21-104 - Copies of Required Official Bonds, etc., and Transcripts.
Section 12-21-106 - Official Entry on Paper as Evidence of Registry.
Section 12-21-107 - When Certified Copy Good Secondary Evidence.
Section 12-21-108 - Historical Works, etc., as Evidence of Facts of General Notoriety and Interest.
Section 12-21-110 - Receipts for Money.
Section 12-21-111 - Verified Itemized Statement as Evidence of Account's Correctness.
Section 12-21-112 - Written Contract as Evidence of Debt or Duty; Impeachment Thereof.