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2014 Code of Alabama
Title 12 - COURTS.
Chapter 21 - EVIDENCE AND WITNESSES.
Section 12-21-247 - Conditional judgment against defaulting witnesses - Entry.

AL Code § 12-21-247 (2014) What's This?
Section 12-21-247Conditional judgment against defaulting witnesses - Entry.

Any witness who is duly summoned in a criminal case and who fails to appear as commanded shall forfeit $100.00 to the party at whose instance he was summoned, for which a conditional judgment must be entered against him.

(Code 1852, §672; Code 1867, §4224; Code 1876, §4929; Code 1886, §4470; Code 1896, §5294; Code 1907, §7891; Code 1923, §5629; Code 1940, T. 15, §302.)

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