HB484 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jeff McLaughlin
Democrat
Co-Sponsors: Mac McCutcheon Howard Sanderford Frank McDaniel
Session: Regular Session 2010
Title: Criminal homicide, common law doctrine requiring death to occur within one year and a day abolished, Sec. 13A-3-4 added
Description: Under existing common law, for the purpose of criminal homicide, the death of the victim must occur within a year and a day after the act causing the death.
This bill would provide that it would not be a bar to prosecution for criminal homicide if the acts constituting the offense occurred more than a year and a day before the death.
Subjects: Crimes and Offenses

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary