Martin v. State

SAMPLE, WALLACE, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of robbery.

At the commencement of the trial the trial judge denied a motion for continuance, the basis of which was a newspaper article which appellant believes inflammatory and prejudicial to his rights. Except for a copy of the news article, which appeared on page 7 of a local newspaper, this court has no record from which to draw any conclusion of fact or law. The news article itself, standing alone, does not justify a new trial under the decisions cited by appellant (Estes v. State of Texas, 1965, 381 U.S. 532, 85 S.Ct.…