Section 9-12-2 Summoning into service of posse comitatus, boats, etc.; penalty for resistance. - Alabama Statutes

Section 9-12-2

Summoning into service of posse comitatus, boats, etc.; penalty for resistance.

If resistance is apprehended by the sheriff in the execution of this chapter, he may summon to his aid the posse comitatus of his county, armed and equipped as the occasion may require, and may press into his service any steamboat or other vessel not actually engaged in carrying the public mail at the risk and expense of the state; and, if resistance is made by the boatmen of the boat or vessel attempted to be seized, such resistance is punishable in the same manner as is now provided by law for resistance to process.

(Code 1852, §1128; Code 1867, §1308; Code 1876, §1616; Code 1886, §4721; Code 1896, §5576; Code 1907, §7497; Code 1923, §5105; Code 1940, T. 8, §166.)