Ryder v. State

Cobb, Justice.

W. L. Byder was indicted for the offense of murder. His •defense was that he did not commit the homicide charged in the indictment, and that if he did, he was insane at the time the killing was clone.

1, 2, 3. When the case of the accused was called for •trial, he made a motion for a continuance on account of the .absence of four witnesses. His motion complied strictly with the law regulating such matters. Penal Code, §962. And the only matters about which there could be any question were whether the facts sought to be proven by the absent witnesses were material to the defense,…