Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 15-11-4 (2026)
Default of Defendant Admitted to Bail Certified to Circuit Court; District Court’s Certificate as Presumptive Evidence of Default.
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If the defendant does not appear before the district court at the time to which an examination is adjourned, the default on the undertaking of bail shall be certified by the district court to the circuit court, and the like proceedings must be had thereon as upon the breach of an undertaking in that court, the certificate being presumptive evidence of the default of the defendant.
(Code 1852, §455; Code 1867, §4004; Code 1876, §4674; Code 1886, §4281; Code 1896, §5230; Code 1907, §7595; Code 1923, §5228; Code 1940, T. 15, §130.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1981–1981 · leading case: Livingston Bail Bonds v. State, 416 So. 2d 421 (Ala. Civ. App. 1981).
Livingston Bail Bonds v. State, 416 So. 2d 421 (Ala. Civ. App. 1981). “§ 15-11-4, Code 1975. On September 15, 1980 Holmes was indicted by the Montgomery County grand jury for possessing and selling marijuana.”
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