Cross v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant contends we were in error in not sustaining his bill of exception taken to the refusal of the court to grant him a new trial. He sets up in said motion that when his case was called for trial four witnesses were absent, all of whom had been properly served with process; that he announced ready expecting the witnesses to come in as he had made arrangements to have them brought from their homes some 18 miles distant from the court house; that one of the witnesses had a car and had agreed to bring the others, but that on the morning of the trial…