Mauldin v. State

The only question involved in this case is made by the assignment of error that the trial judge erred in dismissing the motion for a new trial and refusing to reinstate it. The facts are- as follows: A motion for a new trial was made during the term oí the trial, and by an order then passed the hearing of the motion was set for a day in vacation, and it was provided therein that the movant should have until the hearing to prepare and present for approval 'a brief of the evidence. On the day designated the hearing of the motion was postponed until a subsequent date in vacation, and on this…