Williams v. State

The trial was had on an indictment for rape; the jury found a verdict of guilty as Charged; and the punishment imposed was that “he suffer death by electrocution.”

No point is made upon the record proper; and it has been examined and found regular.

A motion for continuance for the issuance of an attachment for a witness, because of his absence, should disclose, among other things, the fact that the witness was available or within the jurisdiction of the court at the time of the trial; and it is held there was no error in the court’s refusal to delay the trial and issue an attachment for a…