State v. Rigsby

EwiNG, Sp. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant was convicted of stealing a horse in-DeKalb county, at the November term, 1880, of the circuit court for that county. He has appealed in error to this court.

The errors complained of here are, that the circuit judge refused to continue his case upon certain affidavits for that purpose filed by himself; that he was refused a new trial upon the merits of the case and the affidavits of some other • persons filed after the trial, and the admission by the judge of an alleged confession of the defendant. Upon the trial, and as it took…