State v. Rigsbee

MOORE, Justice.

Defendant in his petition for certiorari brings forward four assignments of error. He first assigns as error the denial of his motion for a continuance based upon the absence of the witness Mary Helen Allen.

The crimes for which defendant was tried were alleged to have occurred on 21 May 1973. Defendant’s counsel conferred with defendant in early or mid-June 1973, at which time he was informed of the substance of a conversation between defendant and a Negro female known to him at that time only as Helen. On 31 August 1973 defendant’s counsel filed written motion for a disclosure…