State v. Wong Gee

1. The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and appeals, assigning error in overruling his application for a postponement of the trial, and in the admission of certain testimony. The record shows that he was indicted on Thursday, the sixth of October, 1898, arraigned on the same day, and given until the following morning at 9 o’clock to plead. He appeared in person and by his attorney at the hour fixed, and entered a plea of not guilty, and, upon inquiry by the court as to when he could be ready for trial, his counsel said *277that he had just been employed; that his client…