Jones v. State

1. When this ease was sounded in the trial court, counsel for the accused asked for a postponement on the ground that he had, but a few minutes before, been retained by another attorney who had been employed by the accused to represent him, but who “was imperatively called out of town;” that there had since been no opportunity to investigate and prepare the case for trial, nor to subpoena witnesses and confer with them and the accused, and that the three witnesses whose names had been, furnished counsel were not in court and he had not seen them nor talked with them about the case. Upon the…