The forms contained in the Appendix of Forms to these rules are provided as general examples and should be modified to comport with the particular circumstances of each case; they have not been approved or adopted by the Alabama Supreme Court as officially approved forms.
Ala. R. Crim. P. 36.1
Committee Comments
Rule 36.1 is intended to inform the practitioner that strict compliance with the forms included with the Appendix of Forms is not necessarily a prerequisite for complying with the rules. The forms are intended as aids to practice only and may be modified according to the requirements of a particular case.
Court Comment
The forms appearing in the Appendix of Forms are those included when the Supreme Court adopted the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure on May 31, 1990. Those forms had not been approved by the Supreme Court as “officially approved forms.” See Rule 36.1. Since the adoption of the rules, the Unified Judicial System’s Forms Committee has drafted other forms, some of them to replace forms included in the Appendix of Forms. These new forms have been distributed to circuit and district court clerks for inclusion in the “Court Forms Manual.”