Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-1-23

  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Any probate judge, clerk of a court of record, register, sheriff, coroner, tax collector, county treasurer, trustee of public schools, notary public, constable, or other public officer who knowingly converts to his own use or permits another to use any of the revenue of the state or of any county or municipality thereof or any money paid into his office or received by him in his official capacity is liable to indictment and, on conviction, must be punished as if he had stolen it.