Roth v. State

The only assignment of error is that the court abused its discretion in not granting a continuance of the case. A motion for continuance is always addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and his ruling thereon will not be disturbed unless it is manifestly abused. Sealy v. State, 1 Ga. 213 (44 Am. D. 641); Lipscomb v. State, 58 Ga. 608. “The presiding judge has a discretion in ordering the business of his court and determining whether it is proper to postpone a case or not; and it is only in instances of flagrant abuse in the exercise of such discretion that this court will…