Starr v. State

Hawkins, Justice.

Jesse Starr was convicted of rape, without recom-, mendation, in Floyd Superior Court. To the judgment overruling his amended motion for a new trial he excepts. Held:

1. The record disclosing that counsel for the defendant were appointed on August 23, 1951, that they first conferred with the defendant on August 28, 1951, and that he was put upon trial on September 4, 1951— it does not appear that the trial court abused its discretion in overruling the motion for continuance made by counsel for the defendant upon the ground that “we of appointed counsel have not had sufficient…