Terms Used In Alabama Code 15-5-4

  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • writing: includes typewriting and printing on paper. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Before issuing a search warrant, a judge, or magistrate authorized by law to issue search warrants, must examine on oath the complainant and any witness he may produce, take their depositions in writing and cause them to be subscribed by the persons making them. Such depositions must set forth facts tending to establish the grounds of the application or probable cause for believing that they exist.