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2009 Alabama Code
Title 15 — CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Chapter 21 — HABEAS CORPUS.
Section 15-21-5 Description of party if name uncertain or unknown.

Section 15-21-5

Description of party if name uncertain or unknown.

If the name of the person on whose behalf an application for a writ of habeas corpus is made or the officer or person by whom he is imprisoned or detained is uncertain or unknown, he may be described in any way that is sufficient to identify him.

(Code 1852, §712; Code 1867, §4263; Code 1876, §4939; Code 1886, §4763; Code 1896, §4816; Code 1907, §7011; Code 1923, §4309; Code 1940, T. 15, §5.)

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