Letson v. State

The defendant was convicted in the city court of Flovilla of the offense of assault and battery. The judge of the superior court overruled his certiorari, and exception is taken.

1. The defendant made a motion for a continuance, which the judge of the city court overruled; and this ruling is the subject of one of the exceptions in the petition for certiorari. It appears, from the judge’s answer to the certiorari, that the witnesses had not been subpoenaed in the case then up for trial, though they had been subpoenaed in a case in which the same defendant was charged with riot. For this reason…