TITLE LIX
PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES

CHAPTER 606
TRIAL

Section 606:4

    606:4 Challenges; State. –
The state shall be entitled to the following number of peremptory challenges, in addition to challenges for cause, in the following cases:
I. Upon the trial for capital murder, 10 challenges.
II. Upon the trial for murder in the first degree, 15 challenges.
III. Upon the trial for any other case, 3 challenges.

Source. GS 243:9. 1877, 6:1. GL 261:10. 1879, 57:31. PS 254:10. 1919, 40:1. PL 368:12. RL 428:12. RSA 606:4. 1974, 34:6. 1979, 283:1. 1993, 143:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.