Plumer v. State

1. Error is assigned on the overruling of the defendant’s motion to continue, based on the absence of two witnesses, who it was claimed would testify that they had had sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix prior to the time that defendant was charged with seducing her. One of these witnesses, it ■ was shown, lived in Spalding county, and another was at Camp Gordon. The defendant was indicted at the March term, 1917, and *270tried on the eighth day of the September term. Iiis counsel stated that at the March term he (counsel) gave the names of these witnesses to the clerk to be subpoenaed, and…