Alabama Chapter 8 — INDICTMENTS.
Article 1 General Provisions.
- Section 15-8-1 — "Indictment" defined.
- Section 15-8-2 — Indictable offenses.
- Section 15-8-3 — Required contents.
- Section 15-8-4 — Formal defects not fatal.
- Section 15-8-5 — Construction of words used.
Article 2 Allegations.
- 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.
Article 3 Alternative Averments.
- Section 15-8-50 — Allegation of different means or intents.
- Section 15-8-51 — Charging different results from same act.
- Section 15-8-52 — Joinder of offenses in same count.
Article 4 Presenting, Filing, Withdrawal and Recordation.
- Section 15-8-70 — Presentation to court and endorsement; limitations on entry in minutes and inspection.
- Section 15-8-71 — Withdrawal and filing of indictment with leave to reinstate same.
- Section 15-8-72 — Recording and safekeeping; when record book required to be produced; use of photograph or photostat machines.
Article 5 Amendments.
- Section 15-8-90 — When allowed.
- Section 15-8-91 — Prosecution dismissed where amendment not consented to by defendant; new indictment; form of entry of record.
Article 6 Lost, Mislaid, Mutilated or Destroyed Documents.
- Section 15-8-110 — Preferring of new indictment; form of entry of record.
- Section 15-8-111 — Utilization of record copy.
Article 7 Judgment Arrested, Indictment Quashed, etc.
- Section 15-8-130 — Permission of court required to quash, dismiss, etc., indictment.
- Section 15-8-131 — Preferring of new indictment where judgment arrested or original indictment quashed; entry of record.