Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (22); 1857, ch. 60, art. 47; 1871, § 1103; 1880, § 1977; 1892, § 1830; 1906, § 2005; Hemingway's 1917, § 1670; 1930, § 1601; 1942, § 497.