Tippitt v. State

Tom Glaze, Judge.

Appellant brings this appeal from a conviction for aggravated robbery. He had been tried previously on the same charge but the court declared a mistrial. The sole issue raised by appellant is that the trial court erred in not granting a continuance to permit him to interview potential witnesses and to obtain a transcript of prior testimony of the prosecuting witness. The standard by which we review this case is that the trial judge’s action in denying a continuance will not be reversed on appeal in the absence of such a clear abuse of the sound judicial discretion of the…