Walker v. Elrod

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court which affirmed a judgment of the probate court which adjudged Daisy Elrod Walker to be a person of unsound mind.

The only question on the merits with which we concern ourselves is the propriety of the jury at the inquisition in probate court.

On March 15, 1967, Marvin Elrod, Sr., a brother of Daisy Elrod Walker, filed a petition to have his seventy-one year old sister declared non compos mentis. An attorney, who was appointed guardian ad litem, denied the allegations and the hearing was set for March 25 and then continued by…