joint indictment

joint indictment
An indictment charging two or more persons as defendants, such being a permissible finding and return where the offenses arise wholly out of the same joint act or where the same evidence as to the act constituting the crime applies to all the persons indicted. 27 Am J1st Indict § 123.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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