Jarrett v. State

In the 1st special ground of the motion for a new trial the court is alleged to have erred in refusing to continue the case. While sitting in the courtroom, and, so far as the record shows, suffering from no disability whatever, the defendant offered his sister, Miss Mozelle Jarrett, as a'witness to establish the grounds of his motion for a continuance. No reason is shown by the record why the defendant could not have been offered as a witness on this motion. In Fogarty v. State, 80 Ga. 450 (5 S. E. 782), it was ruled as follows: “When a person accused of crime seeks a continuance of his…