Pugh v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted at the January, 1910, term of the county court of Murray count}'- on a charge of having in his possession intoxicating liquor for the unlawful purpose of selling the same, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $100 and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of 30 days. When the case came on for trial, he filed a motion for continuance on the ground that a certain witness, Dr. Sullivan, was absent from the state. Upon the trial the affidavit was admitted as the deposition of the absent witness. The proof in the record shows that Dr. Sullivan had moved to…