Boatright v. State

1. All applications for continuances are addressed to the sound legal discretion of the trial judge (Penal Code, § 992), and his decision thereon will not be reversed unless there has been a plain, palpable, and flagrant abuse of his discretion. Curry v. State, 17 Ga. App. 377 (87 S. E. 685), and cases there cited. Smith v. State, 21 Ga. App. 237 (94 S. E. 265).

2. Under the foregoing ruling and the facts of the instant case — including the note of the trial judge that “ she [the witness on account of whose alleged illness the continuance was asked] was placed upon the stand and subjected to a…