2013 Code of Alabama
Title 15 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Chapter 15 - PLEADING.
Section 15-15-22 - Fixing of date to formally make and enter plea; service of notice.


AL Code § 15-15-22 (2013) What's This?
Section 15-15-22Fixing of date to formally make and enter plea; service of notice.

When an information has been filed as provided in Section 15-15-21 and counsel employed or appointed, the court shall, by order entered upon the minutes of the court, fix a date for the defendant to formally make and enter his plea of guilty in open court, which date shall not be within 15 days after the arrest of the defendant nor within three days after notice to the court of his intention to plead guilty, and notice of such date shall be served by the sheriff upon the defendant and upon his counsel.

(Acts 1939, No. 227, p. 367; Code 1940, T. 15, §263.)

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