§ 1-11-203 — Challenges for cause; grounds

(a) Challenges for cause may be taken on one (1) or more
of the following grounds:
(i) A lack of any of the qualifications prescribed by
statute which render a person competent as a juror;
(ii) Relationship by consanguinity or affinity within
the third degree to either party;
(iii) Standing in the relation of debtor or creditor,
guardian or ward, master or servant, or principal or agent to
either party, or being a partner united in business with either
party, or being security on any bond or obligation for either
party;
(iv) Having served as a juror or a witness in a
previous trial between the same parties for the same cause of
action, or being then a witness therein;
(v) Interest on the part of the juror in the event or
question involved in the action, but not an interest of the
juror as a member or citizen of a municipal corporation;
(vi) Having formed or expressed an unqualified
opinion or belief as to the merits or the main question of the
action. The reading of newspaper accounts of the subject matter
before the court shall not disqualify the juror either for bias
or opinion;
(vii) The existence of a state of mind in the juror
evincing enmity or bias for either party.