When a person indicted or presented for a criminal offense is arraigned before a court having jurisdiction of the matter pleads not guilty, and is tried upon the merits and convicted, the person shall not be entitled to a new trial, or to an arrest of judgment, for any of the following causes:
Code 1858, § 5242 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 256, §§ 1-5); Shan., § 7217; Code 1932, § 11803; Acts 1981, ch. 449, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-2601.