The persons remaining after both parties have exercised their peremptory challenges constitute the jurors for the trial. The jurors remaining who were last called under § 23A-20-3, 23A-20-4, or 23A-20-8 to make up the full jury box shall be the alternate jurors.
S.D. Codified Laws § 23A-20-27
Trial jury constituted after peremptory challenges--Last jurors chosen as alternates
Source: SL 1978, ch 178, § 258.
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