Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 12-16-200 (2026)
Evidence Which May Be Received by Grand Jury; Examination, Etc., of Witnesses.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
In the investigation of a charge for any indictable offense, the grand jury can receive no other evidence than is given by witnesses before them or furnished by legal documentary evidence, and any witness may be examined and compelled to testify as to any offense within his knowledge without being specially interrogated as to any particular person, time or place.
(Code 1852, §553; Code 1867, §4103; Code 1876, §4776; Code 1886, §4350; Code 1896, §5036; Code 1907, §7297; Code 1923, §8679; Code 1940, T. 30, §86.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1984–2011 · leading case: Coral v. State, 628 So. 2d 954 (Ala. Crim. App. 1992).
Coral v. State, 628 So. 2d 954 (Ala. Crim. App. 1992). “§ 12-16-200." Wright v. State, 421 So.2d at 1327 (citation omitted).”
Ankrom v. State, 152 So. 3d 373 (Ala. Crim. App. 2011). “1985) (holding that "[t]he testimony of a single witness before the grand jury is sufficient to comply with Ala.Code § 12-16-200 (1975)[, and that] [w]hen it appears that witnesses were examined by the grand jury, or the jury had before them legal documentary evidence, no…”
McConico v. State, 458 So. 2d 743 (Ala. Crim. App. 1984). “Moreover, the testimony of a single witness before the grand jury is sufficient to comply with § 12-16-200, Code of Alabama 1975. Douglas v.”
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