Davis v. State

The defendant filed a motion for new trial. Tbe court, upon granting an order requiring the opposite party to show *712cause' why a new trial should not be granted, provided, in his order fixing a date, for the hearing of the motion, that the movant should have “until the hearing of said motion in which to prepare for filing and approval a brief of the evidence.”. In this first order the hearing was set for December 4. Upon that day the judge continued the hearing until January 10, and on the last-mentioned date he dismissed the motion for a new trial. The motion was dismissed upon the ground, as…