Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 15-2-6 (2026)
Venue - Offense Committed in More Than One County.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
When an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties, venue is in either county.
(Code 1852, §396; Code 1867, §3944; Code 1876, §4635; Code 1886, §3719; Code 1896, §4971; Code 1907, §7228; Code 1923, §4894; Code 1940, T. 15, §94.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14
cases, 1979–2017 · leading case: Williams v. State, 383 So. 2d 547 (Ala. Crim. App. 1979).
Williams v. State, 383 So. 2d 547 (Ala. Crim. App. 1979). “Code Section 15-2-6 (1975). The controlling purpose of this section was the abrogation of the rule of common law that, when an offense was constituted by a series of acts, a part of which was done in one county and a part in another, there could be no prosecution in either…”
Ivey v. State, 821 So. 2d 937 (Ala. 2001). “The State also contends that Ivey's alleged "criminal scheme" stretched to several counties, including Mobile County, and that this fact is further proof that venue was proper in Mobile County.”
Phelps v. State, 439 So. 2d 727 (Ala. Crim. App. 1983). “Moreover, section 15-2-6, Code of Alabama 1975, provides that "[w]here an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties, venue is in either…”
Broadnax v. State, 825 So. 2d 134 (Ala. Crim. App. 2000). “" During its charge to the jury, the trial court stated the following: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, under Title 15 of the code .”
Ex Parte Williams, 383 So. 2d 564 (Ala. 1980). “Section 15-2-6 states that "When . . . the acts or effects [of an offense] constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties, venue is in either county.”
Hodges v. State, 147 So. 3d 916 (Ala. Crim. App. 2007). “” § 15-2-6, Ala.Code 1975. Because venue was proper in Lee County, a motion for a change of venue on this basis would not have been granted.”
Ex Parte Hunte, 436 So. 2d 806 (Ala. 1983). “Under § 15-2-6, Code of Alabama 1975, "When an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties then venue is in either county.”
State v. Williams, 451 So. 2d 253 (Ala. 1984). “Code 1975, § 15-2-6, which designates the county where venue is proper, reads as follows: “When an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more…”
State v. Stephens, 203 So. 3d 134 (Ala. Crim. App. 2016). “Because Ste *137 phens’s abuse of a corpse as charged in the Hale County indictment began in Hale County and ended in Pickens County, we held that pursuant to § 15-2-6, Ala.Code 1975, venue over the crime as charged in the indictment was proper in either Hale County or Pickens…”
Madden v. State, 257 So. 3d 888 (Ala. Crim. App. 2017). “Section 15-2-6, Ala. Code 1975, provides that "when an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another, or the act or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occurs in two or more counties, venue is in either county.”
Coffey v. State, 582 So. 2d 608 (Ala. Crim. App. 1991). “Ala.Code 1975, § 15-2-6, provides: “When an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties, venue is in either county.”
Robert v. City of Opelika, 903 So. 2d 873 (Ala. Crim. App. 2004). “Section 15-2-6, Ala. Code 1975, provides: “When an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two or more counties, venue is in either county.”
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