Sides v. State

Mobley, Justice.

1. In special ground 1, error is assigned upon the failure of the trial court to grant a motion for continuance. On the day of the defendant’s trial for rape, the solicitor-general formally arraigned the defendant for three offenses, to wit: rape, molesting a minor, and kidnapping. To each of the charges the defendant entered his plea of not guilty. This entire proceeding took place in the courtroom, in the presence o'f the jurors who were to subsequently try the defendant for rape, and before the jury had been empaneled and sworn. Counsel for the defendant made a motion for a…