Burgess v. State

This appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson county sentencing appellant to a term of one year in the penitentiary for knowingly receiving stolen property. For the reversal of this judgment two errors are assigned: (1) that a continuance should have been granted, and (2) that certain instructions requested by appellant, which were refused, should have been given.

The continuance was asked to procure the attendance of certain witnesses residing in White county who, if present, would have testified that appellant bore a good reputation in White county, the county in which he…