Hall v. State

- Taylor, C. J.

The plaintiff in error by writ of error *50seeks reversal of a judgment and sentence of conviction of the crime of murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of LaFayette County.

' The first assignment of error is the denial of the defendant’s motion for a continuance of the cause until the next term of the court on the ground, of the absence of material witnesses. T„he affidavit in support of this motion was in compliance with the rule in such cases, but the State in opposition thereto proved quite conclusively that there were no such persons residing in the county of…