Goben v. State

Plaintiff in error, C. W. Goben, was convicted in the district court of Comanche county of murder, and the death -penalty assessed, upon an information charging him and one William Tait with the murder of Russell Sprague in said county on the 25th day of March, 1921. To reverse the judgment and sentence of death rendered in pursuance of the verdict, an appeal was duly perfected.

One of the grounds of the motion for new trial, and assigned as error, is that the court erred in refusing to grant a continuance. On the 31st day of March, 1921, said defendants were arrested at Perryton, Tex.; from…