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Miss. Code Ann. § 99-17-17: Joint defendants are competent witnesses for one another in separate trials.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 99. Criminal Procedure
- Chapter 17. Trial
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.
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