State v. Loveless

Browning, Judge:

Melvin Loveless was indicted at the May, 1953 Term of the Circuit Court of Logan County on two counts: Murder, and accessory before the fact of murder. Subsequently, on June 8, 1953, at the same term, a special *456grand jury met and indicted Loveless as an accessory before the fact of murder. The case was set for trial on June 15, 1953, upon a plea of not guilty, and on that day a written motion for a continuance was filed, assigning as grounds: (1) The hostile attitude of the court at that time due to the fact that at a previous trial of another involved in the murder, a…