Driskill v. State

Driskill, the appellant, with Rice, Longley, Clark, Privot and Chapman, was, at the April term, 1855, indicted in the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, for the mur of one Cephas Fahrenbaugh. Against Driskill, then a verdict that he was guilty of murder in the first dej and that he suffer death; upon which the Court ren judgment and passed sentence.

Driskill, at the proper time, moved for a delay or trial for a reasonable time, on account of the absence of witness. In support of the motion, he filed his affidavit, wherein it is alleged that “he can not safely go into the trial of said eau'se, without…