When two or more defendants are jointly indicted, the court may, at any time before the evidence for the defense has commenced, order any defendant to be discharged from the indictment in order that he may be a witness for the prosecution, and such order operates as an acquittal of such defendant, provided he does testify.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.
Section 12-21-221 - Witness Having Pecuniary Interest in Case.
Section 12-21-222 - Accomplice's Testimony for Felony Conviction.
Section 12-21-223 - Discharged Codefendant as Witness for Prosecution.
Section 12-21-224 - Acquitted Codefendant as Witness.
Section 12-21-225 - Testimony for State or Defendant by Convict.
Section 12-21-226 - Wife Against Husband in Abandonment Cases.
Section 12-21-227 - Husband and Wife for or Against One Another.