Stokes v. State

The appellant was indicted, in the circuit court of Jefferson Davis county, for the murder of one Dale Cliburn, tried and convicted, and sentenced to serve a life term in the state penitentiary, from which judgment he appeals.

The first ground relied upon for a reversal is that the court overruled the appellant’s motion for a continuance on account of the illness of his wife, said motion alleging that his wife had recently been operated upon in the hospital at Columbia, and had not recovered sufficiently to wait on and take care of herself, and that, by reason of such illness, his wife was…