People v. Jenks

Citations

• 24 Cal. 11

Syllabus

<p>Challenge to Jurors.—A defendant, on trial in a criminal action, may interpose a peremptory challenge to a juror, at any time after the appearance of the juror in the box and before he is sworn to try the case, until the whole number of peremptory challenges is exhausted.</p> <p>Id. Rule of Court. — The Court has no power to adopt a rule compelling a defendant in a criminal action to interpose his peremptory challenges to jurors at any particular time, for such rule would he clearly in conflict with the three hundred and forty-first section of the Criminal Practice Act.</p> <p>Id. After Juror is sworn.—After juror is sworn in a criminal case, it is the duty of the Court, upon good cause shown, to allow the defendant to use his peremptory challenges, until they are exhausted, at any time before the jury is completed.</p>