13-5-87 - Laws as to listing, drawing, summoning and impaneling of juries are directory.
§ 13-5-87. Laws as to listing, drawing, summoning and impaneling of juries are directory.
All the provisions of law in relation to the listing, drawing, summoning and impaneling juries are directory merely, and a jury listed, drawn, summoned or impaneled, though in an informal or irregular manner, shall be deemed a legal jury after it shall have been impaneled and sworn, and it shall have the power to perform all the duties devolving on the jury.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 250; 1871, § 2843; 1880, § 1672; 1892, § 2389; 1906, § 2718; Hemingway's 1917, § 2211; 1930, § 2064; 1942, § 1798.