State v. Showen

The defendant was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, and appealed from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The information was filed September 3, 1919. On April 14, 1920, the cause was set for trial for April 19. On the latter date the defendant moved for a continuance on the ground of the absence of witnesses, and in his affidavit set forth that his father and mother were then in the state of Missouri; that they “were with affiant all of the time alleged in the information on file herein, and know positively that affiant did not sell…