Zorn v. State

The defendant was convicted of manufacturing prohibited liquors.

The granting or refusal of a motion for a continuance is within the sound discretion of the trial court, and the court will not be put in error for refusing the motion where it does not appear that such discretion was abused. Sanderson v. State, 168 Ala. 109, 53 So. 109; Caldwell v. State, 203 Ala. 412, 84 So. 272.

The evidence for the'state was directed to showing that certain officers found at the house of the defendant seven and a half gallons of homemade whisky that they called “shimmy,” and in his smokehouse, about 10 feet…