McKnight v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for burglary; the punishment, twelve years.

The indictment was returned against appellant on May 5, 1967, and the case was tried on July 17, 1967.

On the date set, a motion for continuance was filed on behalf of appellant and two other defendants, John McMicken and Travis Frost — separately indicted — by Senator James S. Bates, “one of the attorneys representing” the defendants, which motion alleged as grounds therefor that due to the critical illness of the senator’s father-in- law his presence was required elsewhere by both his wife and his own regard for…