State v. Gregg

Stukes, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and has appealed. The deceased was fatally stabbed during what appellant’s counsel called in argument a “drunken brawl”, in a roadhouse in Dillon County. There was a crowd of patrons variously estimated by the witnesses at from forty to sixty, nearly all, if not all, of whom engaged in the fighting at one time or another.

Appellant moved for continuance of the trial upon the ground of inability to procure the attendance, as a witness, of a former waitress at the roadhouse, whose then Florida or Cuba whereabouts he did not know. The…