23A-20-27. Trial jury constituted after peremptory challenges–Last jurors chosen as alternates.
The persons remaining after both parties have exercised their peremptory challenges constitute the jurors for the trial. The jurors remaining who were last called under §23A-20-3, 23A-20-4, or 23A-20-8 to make up the full jury box shall be the alternate jurors.
Source: SL 1978, ch 178, §258.