Section 28-4-319 Grand jury proceedings generally - Duty of grand jury to present indictments for violations of laws. - Alabama Statutes

Section 28-4-319

Grand jury proceedings generally - Duty of grand jury to present indictments for violations of laws.

Grand juries shall have no discretion as to the finding of indictments for violations of the provisions of this chapter or for violations of the provisions of any law of the state for the promotion of temperance and the suppression of intemperance, and it shall be their duty, if the evidence justifies it, to find and present indictments for every such violation.

(Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4637; Code 1940, T. 29, §112.)