Sheppard v. State

“All applications for continuances are addressed to the sound legal discretion of the court, and, if not expressly provided for, shall be granted or refused, as the ends of justice may require.” The same rule of discretion as is applicable in cases of continuances undoubtedly likewise applies where there is no motion for a continuance but merely a request for postponement. We think the very able and learned judge who presided in the trial of this case erred in treating the request or motion made by counsel for the accused as if it had been a motion for a continuance, in which the law requires…