State v. Fidler

BRITT, Judge.

By his first assignment of error defendant contends that the trial court’s refusal to continue the case was a denial of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. We do not agree with this contention. A motion for continuance is ordinarily addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and therefore is generally not subject to judicial review absent a showing of gross abuse of discretion. State v. Hewett, 270 N.C. 348, 154 S.E. 2d 476 (1967) ; State v. Ferebee, 266 N.C. 606, 146 S.E. 2d 666 (1966). The trial court in exercising its…