When any property, upon or in relation to which an offense was committed, belongs to several partners or owners, it is sufficient to allege in an indictment the ownership to be in any one or more of such partners or owners; or when the property is quasi-public property or belongs to an association, society or collection of individuals, such as churches, meetinghouses, schoolhouses, lodges, etc., it shall not be necessary for the indictment to allege ownership, but it shall be sufficient to describe such property by the name by which it is commonly known or in any other manner which may sufficiently identify the property, upon or in relation to which the offense charged was committed.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 15 - Criminal Procedure.
Section 15-8-20 - Offenses Charged or Described as at Common Law.
Section 15-8-21 - Statutory Language Unnecessary.
Section 15-8-22 - General Terms Used for Special Statutory Terms.
Section 15-8-23 - Manner of Stating Act Constituting Offense.
Section 15-8-24 - When Alleged Act Done in Public Place Suffices.
Section 15-8-25 - How Facts Constituting Offense to Be Stated.
Section 15-8-26 - Charging of Unknown Facts.
Section 15-8-27 - Allegation of Unknown Means.
Section 15-8-28 - Name of Defendant When Unknown.
Section 15-8-29 - General Allegation of Intent to Injure or Defraud.
Section 15-8-30 - Statement of Time.
Section 15-8-31 - Allegation of Venue Unnecessary; Proof of Same at Trial.
Section 15-8-32 - Statement of Legal Presumptions and Matters Judicially Known Unnecessary.
Section 15-8-33 - How Ownership of Property Alleged.
Section 15-8-34 - Description of Animal in Indictment for Offense Concerning Same.
Section 15-8-35 - Indictment for Forgery of Instrument Destroyed or Withheld.
Section 15-8-36 - Perjury and Subornation of Perjury; Indictment.