Hollingsworth v. State

The defendant in the court below was tried upon an accusation charging him with the offense of misdemeanor. The accusation alleged that on the 25th day of April, 1906, he played and bet for money or other things of value at a game played with cards. The accusation was preferred on the 29th day of February, 1909. A motion for a continuance of his case was made, upon the ground of the absence of material witnesses by whom he ex*17pected to prove that he was not engaged in the game of cards charged in the accusation. We think that had we been presiding we would have continued the case, because the…