Morrow v. State

The granting of a continuance in the trial of a criminal case is within the discretion of the trial judge, and his decision will not be distributed unless it appear that the discretion was abused. Sanders v. State, 181 Ala. 35, 61 So. 336; Gilbert v. State, 2 Ala. App. 94, 57 So. 127; Sanderson v. State, 168 Ala. 109, 53 So. 109; Castona v. State, 17 Ala. App. 421,84 So. 871.

Where a crime is shown to have been committed in a certain house, and the tracks of human beings are found near the house, it is competent to show, and a witness may testify, in which direction the tracks were going, if…