175.051 - Number of peremptory challenges.
175.051 Number of peremptory challenges.
1. If the offense charged is punishable by death or by imprisonment for life, each side is entitled to eight peremptory challenges.
2. If the offense charged is punishable by imprisonment for any other term or by fine or by both fine and imprisonment, each side is entitled to four peremptory challenges.
3. The State and the defendant shall exercise their challenges alternately, in that order. Any challenge not exercised in its proper order is waived.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1425)