Hilley v. State

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Fannin county for the offense of murder, and .his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of 25 years.

Appellant complains at the court’s action in refusing to allow him to withdraw his announcement of ready and postpone or continue the case when it developed on the trial that the witness Carl Turrentine had repudiated a statement formerly made by the said witness, which statement was favorable to the appellant, and was prepared on the trial of this case to give testimony damaging to appellant’s defense. Without going…