Vanwey v. State

Roberts, Chief Justice.

Defendants seek to reverse the judgment upon three grounds contained in the motion for new trial, and also in their assignment of errors, to wit:

“ 1st. The court erred in overruling defendants’ application for a continuance.”

Defendants continued the case at the fall term, 1873, for the testimony of one Lawson, whose residence they did not then know. In February, 1874, they had an attachment issued for him to the sheriff of Bed Eiver county, where they were informed and believed he then resided, which was not served. On the 20th day of October they made another…