The chief judge of Ammonihah presided over the trial of Alma and Amulek in the tenth year of the reign of the judges. After the two were bound and brought before him, the people testified against them, charging that they had reviled the law, the lawyers, and the judges, and that they had taught there was one God who would send his Son among the people but would not save them (Alma 14:4-5). This judge was of the order and faith of Nehor, the man who had slain Gideon (Alma 14:16).
When the bodies of the believers who had been cast into the fire, along with the holy records burned with them, were consumed, the chief judge came and struck Alma and Amulek on the cheeks, demanding whether they would again preach that the people would be cast into a lake of fire and brimstone (Alma 14:14). On the twelfth day of the tenth month of that year, he returned to the prison with many teachers and lawyers, struck them again, and challenged them to deliver themselves from their bands as proof that the Lord would destroy the people (Alma 14:23-24).
When the power of God came upon Alma and Amulek and they broke their cords, the earth shook and the prison walls collapsed. The chief judge, together with the lawyers, priests, and teachers who had struck the two, was killed by the fall (Alma 14:27). The city itself was destroyed the following year, when a Lamanite army overran Ammonihah and killed its people (Alma 16:2-3).