Section 35-11-225
Judgment by default.
Judgment by default may be entered against any defendant, except infants and persons non compos mentis, who, after service has been perfected on him, fails to appear within the time required by law in other cases.
(Code 1876, §3450; Code 1886, §3035; Code 1896, §2740; Code 1907, §4771; Code 1923, §8849; Code 1940, T. 33, §53.)