Bryan v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of receiving three hags of stolen coffee, of the value of $100, knowing the same to have been stolen, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.

Several errors are assigned for a reversal of the case. The first is that the court erred in overruling his motion for a continuance on account of the absence from the jurisdiction of the -witness, Marion Smith, who was in the employ of the appellant in his grocery store in Yan Burén at and prior to the time the offense was-charged to have been committed. The indictment was returned on July 5, 1928, hut…