State v. King

Deemeb,, J.

1 2 The defendant was arraigned on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1895, and he took the statutory time to plead. On the fifth day of April, 1895, he filed a motion for continuance, based upon the absence of a witness. The state was given until the ninth of April to make resistance to the motion. Upon the filing of the resistance, the case, at defendant’s request, was assigned for trial on the eleventh day of April, subject to the motion for continuance. On the twelfth of April, the defendant entered his plea of not guilty, and asked for three days’ time in which to prepare for the…