Mullins v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Tinsley—

Affirming.

Appellant was indicted in the Pike circuit court charged with the murder of John Mullins, and on his trial was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at three years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

On this appeal he complains only of the action of the court in refusing his motion, supported by his own and his attorney’s affidavits, to continue the trial because of the absence of another attorney who had been employed to assist in his defense, and who some three days before the trial had been severely injured in an…