39-3-17: Failure to join.

If any person named in the notice provided for in Section 39-3-16 NMSA 1978 does not join in the writ of error or appeal under terms contained in the notice, upon filing proof of service of the notice, he shall thereby be forever precluded from bringing any writ of error or appeal on the same judgment, order, decision or conviction, and the cause shall proceed in the same manner as if he had been named in the writ of error or appeal.