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.
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