State v. Schneck

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

The appellant, Frank Schneck, and Mollie Stewart were charged jointly with murder in the first degree. They were separately tried and each was convicted of the highest degree of murder. Each appealed from the verdict and sentence in the re*335spective cases. In The State v. Stewart, post, a fuller statement of the facts may be found.

The first assignment of error is that the court erred in refusing a continuance of the case. It is strongly insisted as one of the grounds of continuance that the defendant could not have a fair trial in Franklin…