State v. Morrison

PARKER, Judge.

Appellant first assigns error to denial of his motion for a continuance made on the ground that his Tennessee attorney was committed to appear in the Tennessee Court of Appeals on the date upon which trial of this case was scheduled to begin and on the further ground that two defense witnesses from Tennessee had declined to appear voluntarily and defendant’s Tennessee attorney had been unable to process subpoenas to require their attendance by the time of the trial. “A motion for continuance is ordinarily addressed to the discretion of the trial judge and his ruling thereon is…