Application of Article to Conduct After Effective Date.
Known as the Alabama Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 13A-10-1 to 13A-9-92 (653 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Baldwin v. Alabama (1985)
Most recently applied in Cade v. Haley (August 2000)
(Acts 1981, No. 81-178, p. 203, §§19, 20.)
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.
(a) This article applies only to conduct occurring after 12:01 A.M. on July 1, 1981. Conduct occurring before 12:01 A.M. on July 1, 1981 shall be governed by pre-existing law.
(b) Sections 13A-5-30 through 13A-5-38 are hereby repealed. All other laws or parts of laws in conflict with this article are hereby repealed. This repealer shall not affect the application of pre-existing law to conduct occurring before 12:01 A.M. on July 1, 1981.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.