Lindsey v. State

Stolz, Judge.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of voluntary manslaughter.

1. The trial judge did not abuse his discretion in denying the defendant’s retained counsel’s motion for a four-day continuance on the grounds that she had just been retained to represent the accused the day before and that she thought that she could bring into court in the interim a witness germane to the case, with whom she had not had a chance to speak at that time. The motion did not contain the eight statutory requirements which must be met before this court may review the trial judge’s discretion in denying…