2013 Code of Alabama
Title 15 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Chapter 6 - PEACE PROCEEDINGS AND PROCEEDINGS TO PRESERVE ORDER.
Section 15-6-25 - Discharge of defendant; commitment to jail; contents of commitment warrant.
(a) Upon an undertaking, with sufficient sureties being given, the defendant must be discharged; and, if not given, the circuit, district or municipal court judge must commit him to jail until he gives the same, specifying in the warrant of commitment the cause thereof, the time he is required to keep the peace, towards whom particularly and the sum in which security is required.
(b) Any person committed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section may be discharged by the sheriff of the county in which he is detained upon entering into an undertaking to keep the peace, with sufficient sureties, in the sum and for the term required by the circuit, district or municipal court judge.
(Code 1852, §§416, 417; Code 1867, §§3965, 3966; Code 1876, §§4035, 4036; Code 1886, §§4689, 4690; Code 1896, §§5170, 5171; Code 1907, §§7529, 7530; Code 1923, §§5147, 5148; Code 1940, T. 15, §§410, 411.)Disclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Alabama may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.
