Colee v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted, upon an indictment charging him with the crime of incest, and prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction entered against him.

One of the grounds relied upon for a reversal, by appellant’s counsel, is, that a continuance, applied for by appellant, was wrongly refused. The State insists that the record does not present this question, because the bill of exceptions was not presented to the judge during the trial. The record, as we read it, shows that the application for a continuance was made and refused on the 1st day of June, 1881; that, on the…