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2017 Code of Alabama
Title 13A - CRIMINAL CODE.
Chapter 5 - PUNISHMENTS AND SENTENCES.
Article 2 - Death Penalty and Life Imprisonment Without Parole.
Section 13A-5-41 - Lesser included offenses.
Universal Citation: AL Code § 13A-5-41 (2017)
Section 13A-5-41Lesser included offenses.
Subject to the provisions of Section 13A-1-9(b), the jury may find a defendant indicted for a crime defined in Section 13A-5-40(a) not guilty of the capital offense but guilty of a lesser included offense or offenses. Lesser included offenses shall be defined as provided in Section 13A-1-9(a), and when there is a rational basis for such a verdict, include but are not limited to, murder as defined in Section 13A-6-2(a), and the accompanying other felony, if any, in the provision of Section 13A-5-40(a) upon which the indictment is based.
(Acts 1981, No. 81-178, p. 203, §3; Acts 1982, No. 82-567, p. 945, §1.)
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