Giles v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

— Appellant was convicted of burglary of a railroad car, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The grounds of the motion for a new trial are not verified other than by the fact that appellant swore to the motion. The first ground of the motion sets out the fact that he was taken on surprise in that his attorneys who had been employed by his relatives refused to go into the case at the last moment and before he had opportunity to employ other counsel; that he was deprived of any witnesses by reason of that' fact; that he could…