Criminal Possession of Forged Instrument in the Second Degree.
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 420 So. 2d 292 - Carter v. State (1982)
Most recently applied in Derrick Myron Lloyd v. David T. Marshall (July 2013)
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §4011.)
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) A person commits the crime of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree if he possesses or utters any forged instrument of a kind specified in Section 13A-9-3 with knowledge that it is forged and with intent to defraud.
(b) Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree is a Class C felony.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.