§ 22-3-103. Challenge for Adverse Interest
Either party to an action may challenge for cause any person who has an adverse interest in a similar suit involving like questions of facts or involving the same parties.
§ 22-3-104. Peremptory Challenges — Effect of Consolidation of Cases
Either party to a civil action may challenge four (4) jurors without assigning any cause. In the event there is more than one (1) party plaintiff or more than one (1) party defendant in a civil action, four (4) additional challenges shall be allowed to such side or sides of the case; and the trial […]
§ 22-4-101. Per Diem and Travel Allowance
Every regular juror, including jurors on chancery court juries, is entitled to receive at least ten dollars ($10.00) for each day’s attendance. The legislative body of any county or the legislative body of the metropolitan government of any county having a metropolitan form of government may by vote increase this rate to an amount in […]
§ 22-4-102. Tales Jurors
Tales jurors shall be compensated in the same manner as regular jurors.
§ 22-4-103. Reimbursement of Jurors
To qualify for reimbursement, jurors must prove, under oath, during the jury service term in which they serve and before the jury coordinator, the tolls necessarily incurred in going to or returning from their place of residence to the courthouse.
§ 22-4-104. Certification of List to County Official
The jury coordinator shall, when the jury pool is discharged, make out and certify a list of the jurors, with the number of days they have respectively served, and the amount due to each, and deliver the list to the appropriate county official, who shall compensate jurors in the amount due to each of them […]
§ 22-4-105. Issuance of Warrants
It is the duty of the county to issue a warrant in payment of jury service every thirty (30) days, for the full amount due up to that time, to each member of a regular, grand or petit jury, when the jury service term extends beyond thirty (30) days in length.
§ 22-4-106. Absence From Employment — Amount of Compensation
Upon receiving a summons to report for jury duty, any employee shall, on the next day the employee is engaged in the employee’s employment, exhibit the summons to the employee’s immediate superior, and the employer shall thereupon excuse the employee from employment for each day the employee’s service as a juror in any court of […]
§ 22-4-107. Donation of Juror Reimbursement to Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund
Each prospective juror reporting for jury service shall be provided a form letter that, when signed by the prospective juror, directs the county treasurer to donate all of the prospective juror’s reimbursement for jury service to the criminal injuries compensation fund provided for in title 29, chapter 13. The county treasurer shall send all donations […]
§ 22-3-101. Absolute Right of Parties to Examine
Parties in civil and criminal cases or their attorneys shall have an absolute right to examine prospective jurors in such cases, notwithstanding any rule of procedure or practice of court to the contrary.