Opinion ID: 1847690
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Heading: whether the trial court erred in refusing to grant the challenges for cause davis requested when family members of the jurors were wal-mart employees.

Text: ¶ 15. Davis contends the court erred by failing to excuse jurors with family members who worked at Wal-Mart. The trial court did excuse jurors who either worked at Wal-Mart or lived in the same household with someone who worked at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart asserts Davis waived his right to object to failure of the court to excuse jurors for cause when he failed to use all of his peremptory challenges. This Court has a long standing rule that when a party has challenges remaining and fails to use them, he cannot object to the court for failing to excuse a juror for cause. Capler v. City of Greenville, 207 So.2d 339, 341 (Miss.1968)(citing Bone v. State, 207 Miss. 20, 41 So.2d 347 (1949)). ¶ 16. The threshold test for an objection to the court's failure to excuse a juror for cause is a showing on appeal that the objecting party had used all of his peremptory challenges and the party was forced to take the incompetent juror. Chisolm v. State, 529 So.2d 635, 639 (Miss.1988). Any other rule would allow the objecting party to take advantage of error he helped commit. Capler, 207 So.2d at 341. ¶ 17. Davis admits he only used three of his peremptory challenges yet still cites a case where the counsel moved to quash the jury panel for violations of jury statutes and fraud. Hudson v. Taleff, 546 So.2d 359 (Miss.1989). Hudson is not helpful to this Court's determination and Davis is barred from objecting to the trial court's failure to strike jurors for cause.