Duty of sheriff to furnish list of confined prisoners to circuit court.

It is the duty of the sheriff, on the first day of each session of the circuit court of his county, to make out and deliver to the presiding judge a certified list of the names of all the prisoners confined in the jail and of the offenses with which they are charged or of which they have been convicted; and, on failure to do so, the sheriff is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1852, §255; Code 1867, §3803; Code 1876, §4503; Code 1886, §4552; Code 1896, §4963; Code 1907, §7208; Code 1923, §4818; Code 1940, T. 45, §135.)