H 3250 General Bill, By F.L. Day
    A Bill to amend Section 14-7-1110, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to peremptory challenges in criminal cases in circuit courts, so as to change the reference to "rape" to "criminal sexual conduct", to increase the State's challenges from five to ten, to provide that, when more than one defendant is jointly tried, the State is entitled to not more than twenty challenges, and to delete the provisions allowing no more than ten challenges to defendants jointly tried for misdemeanors and allowing ten challenges to the State in felonies when the defendants are jointly tried; to amend Section 14-7-1120, relating to peremptory challenges and strikes in criminal cases in circuit courts for alternate jurors, so as to increase the prosecution's challenges from one to two; and to repeal Section 14-9-200 relating to peremptory challenges in criminal cases in county courts.

01/06/86	House	Prefiled
01/06/86	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
01/14/86	House	Introduced and read first time HJ-92
01/14/86	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-92
05/07/86	House	Tabled in committee