Hinman v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

On the 12th day of July, 1907, an indictment was returned into the District Court of Eastland County charging appellant with seducing one Lela Bareñeld on or about the 15th day of March, 1906.

When the case was called for trial on the 9th day of August, 1907, appellant made application for a continuance on account of the absence and for want of the testimony of Mull Wallace, Clarence Withers, and Mrs.’ M. F. Ames. This motion was not at the time acted upon, but the cause was postponed by the court of its own motion until the 19th day of August thereafter, when it was again…