Harroway v. State

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the offense of making whisky. He appeals from the judgment of conviction, and here insists upon three separate propositions to effect a reversal of the judgment.

The first insistence is that the court erred in not granting him a continuance on account of the absence of one J.C. Huckaby, who was at home sick and was unable to attend court. The granting or refusing of an application for a continuance is a matter of discretion of the trial court, and unless it clearly appears that a gross abuse of such discretion has been indulged, the ruling of…