Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 12-16-3 (2026)
Citizens of State, Counties, Cities, Etc., Not Disqualified as Interested in Actions in Which State, County, City, Etc., a Party or Interested.
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In actions to which the state, a county, a city or a town is a party or has an interest, citizens of the state, county, city or town are not disqualified by reason of interest.
(Code 1852, §2272; Code 1867, §2676; Code 1876, §3026; Code 1886, §2753; Code 1896, §2657; Code 1907, §4636; Code 1923, §8664; Code 1940, T. 30, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2000–2000 · leading case: Evans v. State, 794 So. 2d 411 (Ala. 2000).
Evans v. State, 794 So. 2d 411 (Ala. 2000). “We held that the action by the trial court was clearly error under § 12-16-3, Ala.Code 1975, but we declined to reverse because of that error.”
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