State v. Mayfield

Statement of ti-ie Case.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nioholls, C. J.

The defendant, a colored man, indicted for the murder of a colored boy, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years.

Tie appealed.

His first assigned ground of complaint is the overruling, by the court, of a motion made by him for a continuance.

The grounds set up in this motion were that he had only been indicted, arrested and made acquainted with the charge against him, on the 13th of August, 1900; that he was totally without means to procure an attorney, as were also his…