Spillers v. State

145 Ga. App. 809 (1978)

245 S.E.2d 54

SPILLERS

v.

THE STATE.

55460.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Submitted March 1, 1978.

Decided April 28, 1978.

Miller & Shiver, David L. Shiver, for appellant.

Thomas H. Pittman, District Attorney, Thomas D. Watry, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

DEEN, Presiding Judge.

1. The defendant's first enumeration of error, the denial of a continuance, is based on the fact that only a day and a half intervened between the appointment of counsel and the call of the case for trial, of which a full working day necessarily required appointed counsel's presence in the…