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  1. Upon an indictment against several defendants, any one (1) or more may be convicted or acquitted.
  2. In an indictment against several defendants, if the jury cannot agree upon a verdict as to all, the jury may render a verdict as to those defendants in regard to whom the jury agrees, on which a judgment shall be entered.

Code 1858, §§ 5216, 5220; Shan., §§ 7189, 7193; Code 1932, §§ 11752, 11756; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 40-2523, 40-2524.

Textbooks. Tennessee Criminal Practice and Procedure (Raybin), § 31.33.

Tennessee Jurisprudence, 24 Tenn. Juris., Verdict, §§ 5, 7.

Law Reviews.

Criminal Law in Tennessee in 1972 — A Critical Survey — IV. Procedure (Joseph G. Cook), 40 Tenn. L. Rev. 569 (1973).


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