Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The jury having been impaneled and sworn, the
trial must proceed in the following order:
1. If the indictment is for a felony, the clerk must read it and state
the plea of the defendant to the jury. In all other cases this formality may
be dispensed with.
2. The prosecuting attorney or other counsel for the people must open the
cause and offer the evidence in support of the indictment.
3. The defendant or his counsel may then open the defense and offer his
evidence in support thereof.
4. The parties may then respectively offer rebutting testimony only,
unless the court for good reason, in furtherance of justice, permit them to
offer evidence upon their original case.
5. When the evidence is concluded, unless the case is submitted to the
jury on either side, or on both sides, without argument, the prosecuting
attorney or other counsel for the people must open, and the prosecuting
attorney may conclude, the argument.
6. The judge must then charge the jury if requested by either party; he
may state the testimony and declare the law, but must not charge the jury in
respect to matters of fact; such charge must be reduced to writing before it
is given, unless by the mutual consent of the parties it is given orally.

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