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Ark. Code Ann. § 16-32-203: Selection for misdemeanor trial
Where this section sits in the code
- AR Code
- Title 16
- Chapter 32
- Subchapter 2
The jury, for the trial of all prosecutions for misdemeanors, shall be selected in the following manner: (1) Each party shall have three (3) peremptory challenges, which may be made orally; and (2) (A) The court shall cause the names of twenty-four (24) competent jurors, written upon separate slips of paper, to be placed in a box to be kept for that purpose, from which the names of eighteen (18) jurors shall be drawn and entered on a list in the order in which they were drawn, and numbered. (B) Each party shall be furnished with a copy of the list, from which each may strike the names of three (3) jurors and return the list so stricken to the judge, who shall strike from the original list the names struck from the copies. (C) The first twelve (12) names remaining on the original list shall constitute the jury. Crim. Code, § 192; C. & M. Dig., § 3143; Pope's Dig., § 3978; A.S.A. 1947, § 43-1902; Acts 1993, No. 592, § 2; 1995, No. 1296, § 61.
The jury, for the trial of all prosecutions for misdemeanors, shall be selected in the following manner:
(1) Each party shall have three (3) peremptory challenges, which may be made orally; and
(2) (A) The court shall cause the names of twenty-four (24) competent jurors, written upon separate slips of paper, to be placed in a box to be kept for that purpose, from which the names of eighteen (18) jurors shall be drawn and entered on a list in the order in which they were drawn, and numbered. (B) Each party shall be furnished with a copy of the list, from which each may strike the names of three (3) jurors and return the list so stricken to the judge, who shall strike from the original list the names struck from the copies. (C) The first twelve (12) names remaining on the original list shall constitute the jury.
(A) The court shall cause the names of twenty-four (24) competent jurors, written upon separate slips of paper, to be placed in a box to be kept for that purpose, from which the names of eighteen (18) jurors shall be drawn and entered on a list in the order in which they were drawn, and numbered.
(B) Each party shall be furnished with a copy of the list, from which each may strike the names of three (3) jurors and return the list so stricken to the judge, who shall strike from the original list the names struck from the copies.
(C) The first twelve (12) names remaining on the original list shall constitute the jury.
Crim. Code, § 192; C. & M. Dig., § 3143; Pope's Dig., § 3978; A.S.A. 1947, § 43-1902; Acts 1993, No. 592, § 2; 1995, No. 1296, § 61.
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