Title 13A

(a) Defense. Except as otherwise expressly provided, justification or excuse under this article is a defense. (b) Danger to innocent persons. If a person is justified or excused in using force against a person, but he recklessly or negligently injures or creates a substantial inj…

Unless inconsistent with other provisions of this article, or with some other provision of law, conduct which would otherwise constitute an offense is justifiable and not criminal when it is required or authorized by law or by a judicial decree or is performed by a public servant…

(a) A person is justified in using physical force upon another person when both of the following are satisfied: (1) The person’s use of force is to defend himself or herself or a third person from what he or she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physic…

The use of force upon another person is justified under any of the following circumstances: (1) A parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the care and supervision of a minor or an incompetent person, and a teacher or other person responsible for the care and supervision…

(a) A person in lawful possession or control of premises, as defined in Section 13A-3-20, or a person who is licensed or privileged to be thereon, may use physical force upon another person when and to the extent that he reasonably believes it necessary to prevent or terminate wh…

A person is justified in using physical force, other than deadly physical force, upon another person when and to the extent that he reasonably believes it to be necessary to prevent or terminate the commission or attempted commission by the other person of theft or criminal misch…

(a) A law enforcement officer shall be justified in making any use of physical force against a person if the use of force is conduct performed within the law enforcement officer’s discretionary authority and does not constitute excessive force as provided in subsection (b). (b) N…

A person may not use physical force to resist a lawful arrest by a law enforcement officer who is known or reasonably appears to be a law enforcement officer. (Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §635; Act 2025-423, §3.)

(a) It is a defense to prosecution that the actor engaged in the proscribed conduct because he was compelled to do so by the threat of imminent death or serious physical injury to himself or another. (b) The defense provided by this section is unavailable if the actor intentional…

The Alabama Criminal Code adopts the present case law on entrapment. (Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §650; Acts 1979, No. 79-664, p. 1163, §1.)