Salter v. State

B. C. Salter was indicted for the offense of rape. The indictment charges that he committed the offense upon a named female under the age of fourteen years. The defendant was found guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court; and his punishment was fixed at not less than eight nor more than twenty years in the penitentiary. He filed a motion for. new trial, which was afterwards amended. The court overruled the motion, and the defendant excepted.

One ground of the motion for new trial complains that the court erred in overruling a motion to continue the case. The motion was based…