State v. Duffy

Williams, Judge :

Defendant was tried and convicted in the criminal court of Harrison county on an indictment charging him with keeping a “common gaming house,” and adjudged to-pay a fine *300of $50 and serve a jail sentence of sixty days. . He was denied a writ of error by the circuit court of said county, and thereafter obtained one from this court. A number of errors are assigned in the petition, but no brief is filed on his behalf.

One assignment of error is, that the trial court improperly overruled his motion for a continuance. The record shows that the continuance was refused because the…