State v. Hudson

The defendant was convicted of the crime of keeping a banking game and banking house at which money and the representative of money and articles of value were bet and hazarded. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and, in default of payment, to serve 12 months in jail.

On appeal he com plains of errors of the trial judge: (1) In not granting him a continuance; (2) in overruling a motion for a new trial; and (3) in failing to sustain a motion in arrest of judgment.

The basis for the application for a continuance was the absence of a witness named W. P. Jones, who it is alleged if present…