Arkansas Code Title 16, Subtitle 2, Chapter 19, Subchapter 6 - Trial

• § 16-19-601 - Trial by Court or Jury.
  After the parties appear and the issues have been made up, the matters in controversy may be submitted by them to the justice. If...
• § 16-19-602 - Adjournment.
  If from any cause, the justice of the peace is unable to attend the trial at the time fixed, or if a jury is...
• § 16-19-603 - Continuances -- Testimony of Adverse Party's Witness.
  (a) Either party may obtain a postponement of the cause not exceeding thirty (30) days, on account of the absence of evidence by filing...
• § 16-19-604 - Jurors -- Number and Qualifications.
  The jury shall be composed of six (6) jurors who shall be qualified as required in the circuit courts. However, a lesser number of...
• § 16-19-605 - Challenges to Jurors.
  (a) In the formation of a jury, each party shall be entitled to three (3) peremptory challenges, and any deficiencies in the number of...
• § 16-19-606 - Jurors -- Oath.
  The justice of the peace shall administer to each juror an oath well and truly to try the matter in controversy between ....., plaintiff,...
• § 16-19-607 - Jury to Hear Evidence in a Body.
  After the jury are sworn, they shall sit together and hear the allegations and proofs of the parties, which shall be delivered publicly in...
• § 16-19-608 - Witnesses Generally.
  (a) Every person offered as a witness, before any testimony shall be given by him, shall be duly sworn that the evidence he shall...
• § 16-19-609 - Examination of Adversary -- Effect of Refusal to Submit to Examination -- Application on Appeal.
  (a) Either party may examine the other on oath and for that purpose may cause him to be summoned to attend the trial if...
• § 16-19-610 - Witness and Juror Attendance and Mileage Fees.
  (a) The quorum court of any county may, by a majority vote of the members thereof, fix the fees payable to witnesses and jurors...
• § 16-19-611 - Verdict -- Entry on Docket.
  (a) The jurors must all agree to the verdict.(b) When the jurors shall have agreed upon their verdict, they shall deliver the verdict to...
• § 16-19-612 - Failure of Jury to Agree -- Retrial.
  Whenever a justice is satisfied that a jury sworn in a cause before him, after having been out a reasonable time, cannot agree on...
• § 16-19-613 - New Trial Granted on Motion -- Exception.
  A new trial or rehearing may be granted by a justice of the peace, except on trial by jury, upon motion made within ten...

Last modified: November 15, 2016