Section 28-4-272 Forfeiture and condemnation proceedings generally - Persons not to be excused from attending and testifying or producing books, papers, etc., at hearing or trial; immunity from prosec - Alabama Statutes

Section 28-4-272

Forfeiture and condemnation proceedings generally - Persons not to be excused from attending and testifying or producing books, papers, etc., at hearing or trial; immunity from prosecution as to transactions, etc., as to which testimony or documents produced.

No person, except one who answers claiming some right, title or interest in the liquors so seized, shall be excused from attending and testifying or producing any books, papers or other documents before any court or judge upon any such hearing or trial upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to convict him of a crime or to subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be received against him upon any criminal investigation, trial or proceeding.

(Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4765; Code 1940, T. 29, §234.)