Section 99-17-5 - Peremptory challenges; joint defendant must agree

Defendants tried jointly must agree in their challenges made without cause, and shall be entitled to only the number to which one defendant is entitled.Codes, 1880, § 3070; 1892, § 1419; 1906, § 1492; Hemingway's 1917, § 1250; 1930, § 1273; 1942, § 2516.