§15-17-2. When jury cannot agree upon verdict as to all jointly tried defendants.

When several persons are indicted and tried jointly, if the jury cannot agree upon a verdict as to all, they may render a verdict as to those in regard to whom they agree, on which a judgment must be entered accordingly, and the case as to the other defendants may be tried by another jury.

(Code 1852, §652; Code 1867, §4204; Code 1876, §4909; Code 1886, §4483; Code 1896, §5307; Code 1907, §7316; Code 1923, §8698; Code 1940, T. 15, §324.)