State v. Buckner

Sarah Buckner was indicted at the March term of the Bol-linger Circuit Court, in the year 1855, as principal in the second degree of the murder in the first degree of Whiston Buckner. On the application of the prisoner the venue was changed to the Circuit Court of Stoddard county. The trial of the cause was postponed from term to term until the May term, 1856. At this term the prisoner moved for a continuance, and the record shows that she filed three different affidavits in support of the motion. This motion was overruled, and the defendant excepted, and saved the point by a bill of…