West v. State

Special ground 1 complains of the court’s refusal to grant the defendant’s motion for a continuance based on the absence of Mrs. J. T. Henry, whom the defendant testified he desired as a witness and whom he expected would testify that sheriff W. H. Hutchins, in a conversation with the wife of the defendant immediately after the raid of the still at which defendant was charged with attempting to make whisky, asked defendant’s wife where he was and if he didn’t run off from the still down there. It was shown that Hutchins was expected to testify, as he did later testify, that he recognized the…