State v. Bradley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Egan, J.

The defendants were indicted, tried, and found guilty of petty larceny. Ben Brown, one of the defendants, failed to appear after verdict to receive sentence; his co-defendants were sentenced: Andrew Bradley to twelve months imprisonment in the Penitentiary and Jack Bradley to nine months. They have appealed. Three errors are assigned r

*327First — That the court improperly overruled an application for continuance on account of the absence of a material witness, for the reason that the defendants did not swear that they could not prove the same facts…