Curry v. State

The sixth headnote alone needs elaboration. It is insisted by counsel for the plaintiff in error that when two defendants charged with a felony, not a capital felony, are being jointly tried, counsel for the defendants are entitled to two hours argument of the case. Counsel cite rulings of the Supreme Court (Cruce v. State, 59 Ga. 83; Cumming v. State, 99 Ga. 662 (27 S. E. 177); Butler v. State, 92 Ga. 601 (19 S. E. 51); Rawlins v. State, 124 Ga. 48 (52 S. E. 1)), to the effect that in such a case *379each defendant is entitled to twenty peremptory strikes, and insist that it follows that as the…