Collins v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Dismissing appeal.

On April 30, 1943, the grand jury of Knox County returned an indictment against the appellant, Jesse Collins, charging him with having committed the offense of detaining a woman against her will. He was tried by a jury and convicted at the immediately following term of the same court, which was on June 24 of the same year. His motion for a continuance was overruled and, following the verdict, he filed his motion for a new trial containing a number of grounds two of them being, error of the court in overruling his motion for a continuance,…