Any of several persons jointly indicted for a felony may be tried separately on making application therefor, in capital cases, before the drawing of any special venire which is summoned to appear on the day the case is set for trial and in other cases, before arraignment.Codes, 1880, § 3068; 1892, § 1417; 1906, § 1490; Hemingway's 1917, § 1248; 1930, § 1271; 1942, § 2514, Laws, 1985, ch. 443, § 5, eff. 7/1/1985.
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