§12-16-78. Drawing of names from jury box for juries in probate court; summoning and drawing of jurors; certification to jury commission of names of persons disqualified, exempt and empaneled.

Whenever a jury is required to try any issue in a probate court of the county, other than inquisition proceedings regarding mental illness, the probate judge shall procure the jury box and key thereto and shall draw from the jury box as many names as he may think necessary, in no case less than 24, and shall immediately return the key and box to the proper custodian thereof respectively. After each name is drawn, it shall not be returned to the jury box and there shall be no selection of names, and the probate judge shall make and file a record of the drawing and issue an order to the sheriff requiring him to summon the jurors, and the probate judge shall draw the juries in the manner provided by this article, and the judge shall call the names of those disqualified and exempt and those empaneled to be certified to the jury commission as required by law.

(Acts 1909, No. 227, p. 305; Code 1923, §8629; Code 1940, T. 30, §43.)