State v. Athey

The defendant, a married man of middle age, was indicted and convicted, upon a charge of adultery with his wife’s sister, an unmarried girl of about seventeen years. He seeks a reversal of the judgment against him on several grounds.

1. Criminal law: abseñTance: witness. I. Complaint is made of the ruling of the trial court denying appellant’s motion for continuance because of the alleged absence of a material witness. There was no error in t]l0 ruling. The only matter to which it was claimed the absent witness would testify was, first, that the girl, Ethel Wolford, with whom the adultery was…