Cason v. State

1. The defendant’s motion for a continuance of the

ease, based upon the absence of two witnesses, did not show that he expected to be able to have the testimony of the witnesses at the next term of court. Moreover,’as shown by the special ground of the motion for a new trial, complaining of the overruling of the motion- for a continuance, both witnesses resided in the state of Florida. Under these circumstances, the court did not err in overruling the motion. Penal Code (1910), § 987; Boyd v. State, 17 Ga. App. 162 (86 S. E. 411); Woolfolk v. State, 85 Ga. 69 (4) (11 S. E. 814); Owins v.…