(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 prosecution […]
A challenge is an objection to the trial jurors and is of two (2) kinds: (1) To the panel; (2) To the individual juror.
(a) The challenge to the individual juror is: (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 challenge to the juror shall first be […]
(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 of the […]
(a) The state shall be entitled to ten (10) peremptory challenges in prosecutions for capital murder, to six (6) peremptory challenges in prosecutions for all other felonies, and to three (3) peremptory challenges in prosecutions for misdemeanors. (b) The defendant shall be entitled to twelve (12) peremptory challenges in prosecutions for capital murder, to eight […]
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 bias; (5) Peremptory.
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 their attendance coerced.
