Jordan v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted under an indictment charging him with knowingly and fraudently passing as true to I. S". Conyers a forged instrument. When tried he was adjudged guilty and his punishment assessed at two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The court overruled appellant’s application for a continuance, and ■this is assigned as error. As to the witness Z. I. Harlan no process was ever issued, appellant relying on his promise to attend court. When the case was called Mr. Harlan was sick and shortly thereafter died. The court at the time of overruling the motion for a new…