Title 12 — Title 12

The burden shall be upon the convicted defendant or petitioner to satisfy the trial judge that said defendant or petitioner is without said sufficient funds and has no reasonable way to procure the same. If the trial judge is in doubt after such investigation as he deems proper, …

If the trial judge is satisfied that the defendant or petitioner is without sufficient funds, and has no reasonable way to procure the same, necessary for the payment of court reporters’ fees or the clerks’ fees, he shall cause said finding to be entered on the minutes of the cou…

Fees and Transmission Thereof to State Comptroller. If it appears to the trial court, after full investigation, that the defendant or petitioner is without sufficient funds, and has no reasonable way to procure same, to pay the court reporter all of his lawful fee for transcribin…

Transcribed Deemed Inadequate. (a) Any defendant or petitioner who has filed a petition under the provisions of this division and which petition is denied by the trial court, or if parts of the record ordered to be transcribed are deemed to be inadequate by defendant or petitione…

Payment Thereof into General Fund; Liability for Payment. In appeals taken under the provisions of this division, if the judgment or order of the trial court is affirmed or disposed of otherwise unfavorably to the defendant or petitioner, the Supreme Court or the Court of Crimina…

From any final judgment of the circuit court or probate court, an appeal lies to the appropriate appellate court as a matter of right by either party, or their personal representatives, within the time and in the manner prescribed by the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure. Hist…

An appeal lies to the circuit court or Supreme Court from any final decree of the probate court, or from any final judgment, order or decree of the probate judge; and, in all cases where it may of right be done, the appellate court shall render such decree, order or judgment as t…

The Supreme Court of the State of Alabama, with the advice and consultation with the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama, is authorized to adopt all needful rules and regulations designed to accomplish the purposes set forth in this division; such rules and regulations duly adop…

There is hereby appropriated annually out of the General Fund of the State Treasury the sum of $15,000.00, not to be exceeded in any one fiscal year, to pay said court reporters and clerks and to carry out the provisions of this division. Expenditures from said appropriation are …

Appeal from the order, judgment or decree of the probate court may be taken by the party aggrieved to the circuit court or Supreme Court in the cases hereinafter specified. Appeals to the Supreme Court shall be governed by the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure, including the t…

An appeal to the Supreme Court may be taken from the judgment of the circuit court on an appeal brought to such court under the provisions of this division. History: (Code 1852, §1894; Code 1867, §2253; Code 1876, §3963; Code 1886, §3642; Code 1896, §459; Code 1907, §2857; Code 1…

(a) A writ of error on any judgment entered in a criminal case may issue on an order to that effect by any one of the judges of the appropriate appellate court in vacation or by the appropriate appellate court in term time, addressed to the clerk of the court in which the judgmen…

Returnable. When a writ of error is awarded by a judge of an appellate court in vacation, such judge must cause an entry of such order to be made on the minutes of the court at its next term, and if any writ of error is not prosecuted to the term to which it is returnable, it mus…

Proceedings on Failure to Appear. (a) If the defendant is in the custody of the sheriff and the order allowing the writ directs a stay of proceedings on the judgment, the sheriff must, on being served with the clerk’s certificate that the order has been filed and with a copy of t…

Upon the contest of a will removed from the probate court of the county in which it was propounded to the probate court of another county for trial, an appeal lies to the Supreme Court. History: (Code 1852, §1889; Code 1867, §2248; Code 1876, §3958; Code 1886, §3643; Code 1896, §…

(a) No appeal can be taken from any order of the probate court removing an executor or administrator unless the applicant gives either a cash bond or a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties, payable to the probate judge and in the amount fixed by him, not less than …

In all cases appealable to the Court of Criminal Appeals, the court must consider all questions apparent on the record or reserved in the circuit court and must enter such judgment as the law demands. History: (Code 1876, §4990; Code 1886, §4509; Code 1896, §4333; Code 1907, §626…

Granting of New Trial. In all cases of automatic appeals, the appellate court may consider, at its discretion, any testimony that was seriously prejudicial to the rights of the appellant and may reverse thereon, even though no objection was made thereto. The appellate court shall…

If the judgment is reversed, the appellate court may order a new trial or that the defendant be discharged or that he be held in custody until discharged by due course of law or make such other order as the case may require. If the defendant is ordered to be discharged, no forfei…

Upon affirmation of a judgment carrying the death penalty, the Court of Criminal Appeals must direct the sentence to be executed and, if the day appointed for the execution of the sentence has passed, must specify a day for the execution of the sentence, and the judgment and sent…

or Dismissal of Appeal. When the defendant in a case of misdemeanor or felony is sentenced to hard labor, imprisonment or to the penitentiary, gives bail pending the appeal and the judgment of conviction is affirmed or the appeal is dismissed, he is bound by the undertaking of ba…

When the judgment of conviction is reversed and the case remanded, such undertaking binds the defendant to appear from time to time until discharged by law and to answer the charge, as in bail before conviction, but the defendant is not bound to appear before the trial court pend…

When any undertaking of bail under the provisions of Sections 12-22-244 or 12-22- 245 is forfeited by the failure of the defendant to surrender himself to the sheriff or to appear and answer the charge, according to the terms and effect of such undertaking, the same proceeding mu…

In all other cases in which an appeal is taken under the provisions of this division, the appellant, or someone for him, must give security for the costs of such appeal, to be approved by the probate judge or the clerk of the circuit court, as the case may be, and the names of su…

Mind. The next friend or general guardian of a minor or of a person of unsound mind may, in the name of such minor or person of unsound mind, take and prosecute an appeal from any final decree of the probate court or from any judgment, order or decree of the probate judge, on giv…

The costs of an appeal, when paid by an executor or administrator, guardian or guardian ad litem, or next friend or an administrator ad litem, may, in the discretion of the probate judge, be reimbursed from the estate of the testator, intestate, infant or person of unsound mind. …

If a court of record ceases to exist by reason of the repeal of the statute creating it and, while existing, rendered a judgment or decree from which an appeal would lie, within the time prescribed by law, an appeal therefrom may be taken by filing a notice of appeal with the cle…

From a judgment of the circuit court or probate court on a partial or annual settlement of an estate of a deceased person, an appeal lies to the Supreme Court; but this section shall not be construed as to prevent the presentation of an issue upon appeal taken after a final deter…

Record Same. The order of the judge, register or clerk fixing the amount of a supersedeas bond, pursuant to the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure, must be filed and entered by the clerk or register on the minutes of the court, but the failure to make such order or, if made, to…

For taking insufficient surety, the clerk, register or probate judge is liable to the appellee for the damages thereby sustained, unless the surety was generally reputed good for the amount when he was received; but the clerk, register or probate judge is not required to receive …

Condemnation Order. When an appeal is taken to the appropriate appellate court by either party pursuant to Rule 4, Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure, from a final judgment in the circuit court in ad quod damnum proceedings under Section 18-1-20, the judgment of the circuit cou…

Appeals may be taken to the appropriate appellate court from the judgment of the circuit court on application for writs of certiorari, supersedeas, quo warranto, mandamus, prohibition, injunction and other remedial writs as provided by the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure; bu…

Record. If, by reason of negligence or delay of the clerk, register or probate judge, the record on appeal is not delivered to the clerk of the appellate court in time to be filed or if the record on appeal is so defective that the appellate court cannot proceed thereon, the cler…

Applications. If any application is made to a circuit court judge for a temporary restraining order and refused, no other circuit court judge can act on the application. The application may be made to a judge of the Court of Civil Appeals or Supreme Court; if refused by a judge o…

The appellate court may, upon the reversal of any judgment or decree, remand the same for further proceedings or enter such judgment or decree as the court below should have entered or rendered, when the record enables it to do so. History: (Code 1852, §3034; Code 1867, §3502; Co…

When an appeal is taken to the appropriate appellate court from the judgment of any court and the appellate court shall be of the opinion that the case should be reversed because the judgment of the lower court is excessive and that there is no other ground of reversal, the appel…

When a judgment or decree is entered or rendered for money, whether debt or damages, and the same has been stayed on appeal by the execution of bond, with surety, if the appellate court affirms the judgment of the court below, it must also enter judgment against all or any of the…

When an appeal is taken on a trial of the right of property and the judgment is stayed by the execution of a supersedeas bond, if the appellate court affirms the judgment of the court below, it must also enter judgment against the obligors in said bond for the amount of the costs…

On the effective date of Act No. 87-188 [June 11, 1987], the provisions contained therein shall apply to all causes of action not yet filed, any lawsuit upon which any judgment has not been rendered and/or all judgments which have not been affirmed by an appropriate appellate cou…

Upon the affirmance of a judgment for the recovery of chattels in specie, judgment for which has been stayed by the execution of a supersedeas bond, the court must also enter judgment against the obligors in said bond for 10 percent of the alternative value of such property as fi…

When an appeal shall be prosecuted from a judgment to the appropriate appellate court and such appeal is dismissed or the judgment is affirmed, upon a certificate of judgment of the appellate court being filed in the office of the clerk of the court from which the case was origin…

Clerks of the circuit court and probate judges, when cases have been taken from their respective courts to an appellate court by appeal or other lawful mode and been there decided, if the costs accruing in such lower courts for transcripts, or otherwise, are not paid by the parti…

Restraining Orders or Other Equitable Process. No application shall be made to a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the Court of Civil Appeals for a temporary restraining order or other equitable process which may be granted by any other judge or officer unless the same h…

An appeal will lie to the appropriate appellate court from an order appointing or refusing to appoint a receiver. History: (Code 1867, §4422; Code 1876, §3921; Code 1886, §2614; Code 1896, §429; Code 1907, §2840; Code 1923, §6082; Code 1940, T. 7, §758.)

(a) Any party aggrieved by the judgment on the trial of a habeas corpus may appeal to the appropriate appellate court. (b) The district attorney or other prosecuting officer or attorney may take an appeal on behalf of the state to the appropriate appellate court when, on habeas c…

Unconstitutional. In all criminal cases when the act of the Legislature under which the indictment or information is preferred is held to be unconstitutional, the district attorney may take an appeal in behalf of the state to the Supreme Court, which appeal shall be certified as …

This chapter shall be known as the “Mandatory Treatment Act of 1990.” History: (Acts 1990, No. 90-390, p. 537, §1.)

Use. The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Court Referral Officer Trust Fund is hereby established and created as a separate fund in the State Treasury. Such fund shall be used for operation of the alcohol and drug abuse court referral officer program. This fund shall consist of all moneys …

Expenditures; Effect on Other Appropriations. Moneys contained in the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Court Referral Officer Trust Fund shall be expended by the Administrative Director of Courts for purposes set out in Section 12-23-4. Appropriations heretofore or hereafter made to the Un…

In addition to the imposition of any other costs, penalties, or fines imposed pursuant to law, any person convicted as an adult or adjudicated a youthful offender or juvenile delinquent based on the offense of driving under the influence or other alcohol or drug related offenses …