Code of Alabama
Title 15 - Criminal Procedure.
Chapter 8 - Indictments.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 15-8-1 - "Indictment" Defined. - An "indictment" is an accusation in writing presented by the...

Section 15-8-2 - Indictable Offenses. - All felonies and all misdemeanors originally prosecuted in the district...

Section 15-8-3 - Required Contents. - An indictment must contain, in the caption or body thereof,...

Section 15-8-4 - Formal Defects Not Fatal. - An indictment must not be held insufficient, nor can the...

Section 15-8-5 - Construction of Words Used. - The words used in an indictment must be construed in...

Article 2 - Allegations.

Section 15-8-20 - Offenses Charged or Described as at Common Law. - In an indictment for an offense which was indictable at...

Section 15-8-21 - Statutory Language Unnecessary. - Words used in a statute to define an offense need...

Section 15-8-22 - General Terms Used for Special Statutory Terms. - When a statute creating or defining an offense uses special...

Section 15-8-23 - Manner of Stating Act Constituting Offense. - The manner of stating the act constituting the offense, as...

Section 15-8-24 - When Alleged Act Done in Public Place Suffices. - When, to constitute the offense, an act must be done...

Section 15-8-25 - How Facts Constituting Offense to Be Stated. - An indictment must state the facts constituting the offense in...

Section 15-8-26 - Charging of Unknown Facts. - Any fact which is unknown to the grand jury and...

Section 15-8-27 - Allegation of Unknown Means. - When the means by which the offense was committed are...

Section 15-8-28 - Name of Defendant When Unknown. - The indictment must be certain as to the person charged;...

Section 15-8-29 - General Allegation of Intent to Injure or Defraud. - When an intent to injure or defraud is necessary to...

Section 15-8-30 - Statement of Time. - It is not necessary to state the precise time at...

Section 15-8-31 - Allegation of Venue Unnecessary; Proof of Same at Trial. - It is not necessary to allege where the offense was...

Section 15-8-32 - Statement of Legal Presumptions and Matters Judicially Known Unnecessary. - Presumptions of law and matters of which judicial notice is...

Section 15-8-33 - How Ownership of Property Alleged. - When any property, upon or in relation to which an...

Section 15-8-34 - Description of Animal in Indictment for Offense Concerning Same. - In an indictment for the larceny of any animal or...

Section 15-8-35 - Indictment for Forgery of Instrument Destroyed or Withheld. - In an indictment for the forgery of an instrument which...

Section 15-8-36 - Perjury and Subornation of Perjury; Indictment. - In an indictment for perjury or subornation of perjury, it...

Article 3 - Alternative Averments.

Section 15-8-50 - Allegation of Different Means or Intents. - When an offense may be committed by different means or...

Section 15-8-51 - Charging Different Results From Same Act. - When an act is criminal, if producing different results, such...

Section 15-8-52 - Joinder of Offenses in Same Count. - When offenses are of the same character and subject to...

Article 4 - Presenting, Filing, Withdrawal, and Recordation.

Section 15-8-70 - Presentation to Court and Endorsement; Limitations on Entry in Minutes and Inspection. - All indictments must be presented to the court by the...

Section 15-8-71 - Withdrawal and Filing of Indictment With Leave to Reinstate Same. - In all criminal cases in the circuit court in which...

Section 15-8-72 - Recording and Safekeeping; When Record Book Required to Be Produced; Use of Photograph or Photostat Machines. - (a) The clerk of the court in which indictments are...

Article 5 - Amendments.

Section 15-8-90 - When Allowed. - An indictment may be amended, with the consent of the...

Section 15-8-91 - Prosecution Dismissed Where Amendment Not Consented to by Defendant; New Indictment; Form of Entry of Record. - If the defendant will not consent to such amendment of...

Article 6 - Lost, Mislaid, Mutilated or Destroyed Documents.

Section 15-8-110 - Preferring of New Indictment; Form of Entry of Record. - When an indictment is lost, mislaid or destroyed, the court...

Section 15-8-111 - Utilization of Record Copy. - When it is shown to the court that an original...

Article 7 - Judgment Arrested, Indictment Quashed, Etc.

Section 15-8-130 - Permission of Court Required to Quash, Dismiss, etc., Indictment. - An indictment must not be quashed, dismissed, discontinued or abandoned...

Section 15-8-131 - Preferring of New Indictment Where Judgment Arrested or Original Indictment Quashed; Entry of Record. - When a judgment is arrested or an indictment quashed on...

Article 8 - Forms of Indictments.

Section 15-8-150 - Contents; Sufficiency; Use of Analogous Forms. - The forms of indictment set forth in this section in...