(a) A person commits the crime of resisting arrest if he intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a peace officer from affecting a lawful arrest of himself or of another person.
(b) Resisting arrest is a Class B misdemeanor.
Ala. Code § 13A-10-41
Resisting Arrest.
Known as the Alabama Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 13A-10-1 to 13A-9-92 (653 sections).
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Purnell v. State (2003)
Most recently applied in Sharon Ann Ransom v. Richard Sherman (September 2017)
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §4625.)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.