Unless otherwise provided by law, the venue of all public offenses is in the county in which the offense was committed.
Ala. Code § 15-2-2
Venue - County Where Offense Committed.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 423 So. 2d 276 - Coleman v. State (1982)
Most recently applied in Hodges v. State (March 2007)
(Code 1852, §393; Code 1867, §3941; Code 1876, §4632; Code 1886, §3716; Code 1896, §4968; Code 1907, §7225; Code 1923, §4891; Code 1940, T. 15, §91.)
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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.