Title 16, Practice, Procedure, And Courts

(a) Every person held to answer a criminal charge may object to the competency of anyone summoned to serve as a grand juror, before he is sworn, on the ground that he is the prosecutor or complainant upon any charge against the person or that he is a witness on the part of the pr…

(1) A challenge is an objection to the trial jurors and is of two (2) kinds:(1) To the panel;(2) To the individual juror. (1) To the panel; (2) To the individual juror.

(a) The challenge to the individual juror is:(1) For cause;(2) Peremptory. (1) For cause; (2) Peremptory. (b) The challenge must be taken before he is sworn in chief, but the court, for a good cause, may permit it to be made at any time before the jury is completed. (c) The chall…

(a) The challenge for cause may be taken either by the state or by the defendant. (b) It may be general, that the juror is disqualified in serving in any case, or particular, that he is disqualified from serving in the case on trial.(1) Causes of general challenge are:(A) A want …

(a) The state shall be entitled to ten (10) peremptory challenges in prosecutions for capital murder, § 5-10-101, treason, § 5-51-201, or capital rape, § 5-14-114, to six (6) peremptory challenges in prosecutions for all other felonies, and to three (3) peremptory challenges in p…

(1) The challenges of either party need not be all taken together, but may be taken separately, in the following order:(1) To the panel;(2) To the individual juror for general disqualification;(3) To the individual juror for implied bias;(4) To the individual juror for actual bia…

When several defendants are tried together, the challenge of any one (1) of the defendants shall be the challenge of all.

(a) Challenges shall be tried and determined by the court in a summary manner, without the issues of law or of fact arising thereon being reduced to writing. (b) The juror himself may be examined on oath by either party upon challenge. (c) Other witnesses may also be examined and…