State v. Nicholson

The defendant, George Wilson, was found guilty of uttering a forged and counterfeit bank check, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor.

I-Ie asks relief at our hands, on the ground that his application for a continuance in the court below was overruled.

The petition for a continuance states :

“ That George Bingham, a resident of Vicksburg, State of Mississippi, Eli Shepherd, residing on Pearl River, Mississippi, and H. Wheeler, a resident of Covington, State of Kentucky, are material and important witnesses for him in his defence, and with all due diligence which he might use, it would be…