Selection, summons, and composition of trial generally
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Byrd v. State (1994)
Most recently applied in 102 Ark. App. 175 - Marshall v. State (April 2008)
Crim
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) The jurors for the trial of criminal prosecutions shall be selected and summoned as provided by law.
(2) Juries shall be composed of twelve (12) jurors.
(3) However, cases other than felonies may be tried by a jury of fewer than twelve (12) jurors by agreement of the parties.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.