Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 15-2-4 (2026)
Venue - Offense Commenced Outside State and Consummated Within State.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
When the commission of an offense commenced elsewhere is consummated within the boundaries of the State of Alabama, the offender is liable to punishment in Alabama, although he was out of the state at the commission of the offense charged, if he consummated it in this state through the intervention of an innocent or guilty agent or by any other means proceeding directly from himself; and venue in such case is in the county in which the offense was consummated, unless otherwise provided by law.
(Code 1852, §394; Code 1867, §3942; Code 1876, §4633; Code 1886, §3717; Code 1896, §4969; Code 1907, §7226; Code 1923, §4892; Code 1940, T. 15, §92.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1979–1984 · leading case: Ex Parte Baldwin, 456 So. 2d 129 (Ala. 1984).
Ex Parte Baldwin, 456 So. 2d 129 (Ala. 1984). “' "§ 15-2-4, Code 1975. "Accordingly, venue did lie in Monroe County and petitioner was properly tried *134 and convicted.”
Baldwin v. State, 372 So. 2d 32 (Ala. 1979). “§ 15-2-4, Code 1975. Accordingly, venue did lie in Monroe County and petitioner was properly tried and convicted.”
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