Higdon v. State

SAMFORD, J. ‘

Counsel for appellant now make the insistence that defendant was forced to trial in the absence of his witnesses, for whom subpmnas had been issued and executed. The granting of continuances in criminal cases is largely in the discretion of the trial judge, whose action in this regard will not be reviewed unless there is a clear abuse of discretion. Lumpkin v. State, 19 Ala. App. 272, 97 So. 171.

It is next insisted that this judgment should be reversed, because the trial court refused to grant a new trial on grounds alleging certain irregularities in the drawing of the venire for…