2013 Code of Alabama
Title 15 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Chapter 9 - FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, EXTRADITION AND DETAINERS.
Section 15-9-37 - Authority of arresting officer to command assistance; refusal to assist arresting officer.


AL Code § 15-9-37 (2013) What's This?
Section 15-9-37Authority of arresting officer to command assistance; refusal to assist arresting officer.

Every officer or other person empowered to make an arrest pursuant to a warrant issued under this division shall have the same authority in arresting an accused to command assistance therein as sheriffs and other officers have by law in the execution of any criminal process directed to them, with like penalties against those who refuse their assistance.

(Acts 1931, No. 482, p. 559; Code 1940, T. 15, §56.)

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