Arraignment of Accused

(1) When the court and judge advocate (if any) have been sworn the accused shall be arraigned. (2) If there is more than one charge against the accused before the court he shall be required to plead separately to each (3) If there is more than one charge-sheet against the accused before the court, the court shall arraign and try the accused upon the charge in the first of such charge-sheets and shall announce its finding thereon and if the accused has pleaded guilty the court may either proceed to comply with rule 38(1) and (2) before it arraigns him upon the charge in any subsequent charge-sheet or they may defer compliance with those paragraphs until after the accused has been arraigned and tried upon such charge.