Landermilk v. State

This conviction was for forgery.

Appellant made a motion for continuance, which was overruled by the court, and he reserved his bill of exceptions. His motion is based on the absence of Mont Manchester, for whom he had used due diligence. He says he expected to prove by said witness that defendant rode with him on the train from Dublin to Waco, Texas, and that defendant was not trying to conceal his identity or run out of the country. In this connection it is stated, that the State's theory was that defendant committed the forgery, and then fled the country, and attempts to prove this fact by…