Section 11-5-11
Special coroner - Duties.
A special coroner must discharge the duties of the sheriff in such cases as the coroner is required and also when the sheriff and coroner are imprisoned and, on the direction of the judge of probate, when they are both parties or both interested.
(Code 1852, §§808, 809; Code 1867, §§943, 944; Code 1876, §859; Code 1886, §930; Code 1896, §1084; Code 1907, §112; Code 1923, §167; Code 1940, T. 12, §65.)