Section 43-8-194
Depositions of witnesses; rules governing procedure.
For the trial of such contest, depositions of witnesses may be taken in like cases, for the same causes and in the same manner, as depositions are taken in civil actions in the circuit court. In all matters relating to the organization and impaneling of the jury, to the evidence, mode of proceeding and investigation and determination of such contest, not specially provided for by this article, the court shall proceed and be governed by the same rules and regulations, so far as applicable, as prevail in courts of law in civil cases.
(Code 1852, §§1641, 1643; Code 1867, §§1960, 1962; Code 1876, §§2324, 2326; Code 1886, §1994; Code 1896, §4292; Code 1907, §6201; Code 1923, §10630; Code 1940, T. 61, §57; Code 1975, §43-1-74.)