Purcell v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant’s able and earnest counsel urge upon us that the overruling of his motion for new trial based upon the failure to grant his motion for continuance and upon newly discovered evidence was for one or both reasons error which should result in reversal of the conviction.

These contentions received careful attention on original submission and were, we hold, properly disposed of in our original opinion.

We again direct attention to the fact that, insofar as the time of trial was concerned, appellant was, like any other defendant, presumptively sane. In…