Section 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.Codes, 1880, § 3071; 1892, § 1420; 1906, § 1493; Hemingway's 1917, § 1251; 1930, § 1274; 1942, § 2517.