TITLE 3. JUDICIARY, COURTS

CHAPTER 15. JURIES AND JURORS

Part 4. Jury Lists

Selection Of Qualified Persons

3-15-402. Selection of qualified persons. The secretary of state shall select from the most recent list of all registered active electors, as defined in 13-1-101, and make a list of the names of all persons qualified to serve as trial jurors, as prescribed in part 3 of this chapter. The secretary of state shall then combine the resulting list with the list submitted to the secretary of state under 61-5-127, ensuring that a person's name does not appear on the combined list more than once. Each name appearing on the combined list must be assigned a number that must be placed opposite the name on the combined list and must be considered the number of the juror opposite whose name it appears. A person's name may not appear on a combined list for more than one court during a 1-year term.

History: En. Sec. 241, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6343, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 80, L. 1919; re-en. Sec. 8897, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 8897, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 168, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 298, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 93-1402; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 159, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 345, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 241, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 441, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 133, L. 2007; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 88, L. 2015.