Minder v. Georgia

At the November term, 1900, of the superior court of Bibb County, Georgia, Isadore Minder was tried on an indictment for murder, convicted, and sentenced to death. A motion for new trial was made upon the g\ óund, among other things, that the court erred in refusing to .continue the case on account of the absence of material witnesses residing in Alabáma, whose names were given. The defence was insanity, and the motion for continuance set forth that the witnesses would testify that the accused was insane; “ that all the powers of the court have been exhausted to procure the attendance of said…