State v. Taylor

The issue presented by this case is whether the defendant’s constitutional rights were violated by the trial court’s refusal to grant him a trial continuance until an accomplice could be compelled to testify. For the reasons elaborated upon below, we hold that there has been no abridgment of any of defendant’s rights. *860The defendant is under indictment for kidnapping and aggravated felonious sexual assault on a seventeen-year-old Manchester girl. At trial he intends to raise the defense of consent and his only witness to corroborate this defense, Alvah Goodwin, was convicted as an accomplice…