Paulk v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Eve. Tift superior com January 26, 1918. At the July term, 1916, of the superior court an indictment was returned by the grand jury of Tift county, charging James and Arthur Paulk with the offense of having murdered Wiley Matthews on the 21st of December 1915. • On motion of the defendants the case was continued at the January, April, and July terms, 1917, and on the occasion of the last continuance one of the attorneys for the defendants…
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Eve. Tift superior com January 26, 1918. At the July term, 1916, of the superior court an indictment was returned by the grand jury of Tift county, charging James and Arthur Paulk with the offense of having murdered Wiley Matthews on the 21st of December 1915. • On motion of the defendants the case was continued at the January, April, and July terms, 1917, and on the occasion of the last continuance one of the attorneys for the defendants stated to the court “that no further showing for continuance would be made, but that the ease would be ready for trial…
1Per curiam
The court did not err in overruling the motion for a continuance, based on the absence of a witness, it appearing (a) that the witness, at the time of the trial, was in the service of the United States as an enlisted soldier at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark., and not within *305the jurisdiction of the court, (6) that the defendants had been allowed á continuance at three previous terms of the court, and (e) that there had been an absence of diligence. Johnson v. State, 58 Ga. 491 (1); Turner v. State, 70 Ga. 765 (2a); Woolfolk v. State, 85 Ga. 69 (4), 82 (11 S. E. 814).
No. 840. August 14, 1918.…
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