Lyles v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree in the Criminal District Court of Harris County, Texas, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. In the first ground of his motion for a new trial he complains of the action of the court in overruling his application for a continuance. This application was the eighth application filed by appellant, and there was no error in overruling same, as it appears from the record that one of the witnesses had been absent from the State since 1904, and the other had been confined to her bed with…