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Terms Used In Alabama Code 13A-6-126

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

For purposes of determining jurisdiction of this article, the offense is committed in this state if any of the acts committed under Sections 13A-6-121, 13A-6-122, or 13A-6-123 either originate in or are received in this state. The purpose of this section is to confer jurisdiction upon the courts of this state to the maximum extent allowable under the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.