As Amended
SEC. 99-17-17. Joint defendants are competent witnesses for one another in separate trials.
Where parties jointly indicted are tried separately, the party not on trial, shall, in all cases, be a competent witness for the party being tried.
SOURCES: Codes, 1880, Sec. 3071; 1892, Sec. 1420; 1906, Sec. 1493; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1251; 1930, Sec. 1274; 1942, Sec. 2517.