State v. Dudley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Guthrie District Court. — Hon. Edmund Nichols, Judge. The defendant was convicted of having committed rape, and'appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Ladd, J. — I.
x. Criminal law: continuance. An indictment accusing defeiidant with having had sexual' intercourse on May 28, 1909, with prosecutrix, a child under fifteen years of age, was returned October 12, 1909. He was arraigned two ¿ayS later, and given until the 19th to file a motion for continuance. The grounds of this motion were that neither he nor his attorneys would have time to prepare for the defense so ' as to go to trial before the next term of court, and that defendant’s private affairs required attention. The motion was overruled and the pguse assigned for trial October 27,…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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