Code of Alabama
Title 15 - Criminal Procedure.
Chapter 15 - Pleading.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 15-15-1 - Entry of Not Guilty Plea for Defendant Upon Refusal to Plead. - If a defendant, when arraigned, refuses or neglects to plead...

Section 15-15-2 - Judgment May Be Pleaded Without Averring Jurisdictional Facts. - In pleading a judgment or other judicial proceeding or determination...

Section 15-15-3 - How Plea Determined. - In criminal proceedings, a plea is to be determined according...

Section 15-15-4 - Forms of Pleas, Replications, Rejoinders and Demurrers. - The following forms of pleas, replications, rejoinders and demurrers are...

Article 2 - Guilty Pleas.

Section 15-15-20.1 - Non-Capital Felony Offense. - (a) In any criminal proceeding for a non-capital felony offense...

Section 15-15-21 - Information Preferred and Filed Against Defendant. - When the desire of a defendant to plead guilty is...

Section 15-15-22 - Fixing of Date to Formally Make and Enter Plea; Service of Notice. - When an information has been filed as provided in Section...

Section 15-15-23 - Hearing of Testimony; Receiving of Plea; Entry of Judgment; Sentencing of Defendant. - (a) Upon the date fixed for the formal plea of...

Section 15-15-24 - Determination of Degree of Offense and Fixing of Punishment; When Jury Impaneled. - (a) If a defendant upon arraignment or prior to trial...

Section 15-15-25 - When Plea Not Accepted. - If the court, after hearing a plea of guilty by...

Section 15-15-26 - No Right of Appeal. - After the court has heard and considered a plea of...

Article 3 - Pleas in Abatement.

Section 15-15-40 - Objection to Formation of Grand Jury or Indictment Generally. - (a) No objection to an indictment on any ground going...

Section 15-15-41 - When Filed Generally. - Any plea in abatement to an indictment must be filed...

Section 15-15-42 - Verification. - No plea in abatement or other dilatory plea to an...

Section 15-15-43 - Abatement of Prosecution of Misdemeanor in Circuit Court When Case Commenced and Pending in District or Municipal Court. - (a) The original jurisdiction of the circuit courts over felonies...

Section 15-15-44 - When Plea on Ground Grand Jurors Improperly Drawn to Be Filed; Procedure When Plea Sustained. - A plea to an indictment, on the ground that the...