2006 Alabama Code - Section 22-52-71 — Prerequisites to conveyance of prisoner to mental health facility.

No prisoner convicted of a crime in the state who has been declared mentally ill shall be sent to a mental health facility until the sheriff or other officer having legal custody of said prisoner shall have forwarded to the superintendent of such facility a written application and a description of the case, together with a certified copy of the order of the Governor under the authority of which the committal is made, and shall have received information in reply that the prisoner can be received and to which facility he shall be sent.

(Code 1896, §2568; Code 1907, §872; Code 1923, §1457; Code 1940, T. 45, §223.)