Tate v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted •of the offense of robbery, his punishment being assessed at five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

In his motion for new trial there are but three grounds—the first complaining of the action of the court in overruling his application for a continuance on account of the absence of three witnesses. As to the witness Adelle Anderson (or Henderson) she appeared and testified on the trial of the case, and as to the witness Ivy Chambers, the application is insufficient in law, in that it does not allege that the witness Chambers is not…