Forfeiture and condemnation proceedings in circuit courts.

A search warrant may be issued by any judge of a circuit court, and on the return of the warrant, the same proceedings may be had before the judge sitting as a court as are prescribed in this article for the trial before district court judges issuing said warrants. Any defendant to the warrant in such circuit court may have a jury trial upon demanding the same at the time he files his verified answer and claim.

(Acts 1909, No. 191, p. 63; Acts 1915, No. 2, p. 8; Code 1923, §4766; Code 1940, T. 29, §235.)