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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 13-5-87
Laws as to listing, drawing, summoning and impaneling of juries are directory
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001)
Most recently applied in 200 So. 3d 1065 - Nathaniel Cooper v. State of Mississippi (August 2016)
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 250; 1871, § 2843; 1880, § 1672; 1892, § 2389; 1906, § 2718; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2211; 1930, § 2064; 1942, § 1798.
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