The challenges are to individual jurors, and are either peremptory or for cause. Each party is entitled to three peremptory challenges. If no peremptory challenges are taken until the panel is full, they must be taken by the parties alternately, commencing with the plaintiff.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-14-7
Challenge of individual jurors--Number of peremptory challenges--Alternating by parties
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.1310.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.