Hill v. State

Hill was convicted of the murder of Perkins, with a recommendation to life imprisonment. Exception was taken to the overruling of a motion for a new trial.

The motion complains that the court refused to continue the case on.defendant’s showing, that Gilbert Cole had been subpoenaed and was not absent by defendant’s procurement or consent, that the showing was made in good faith and not for delay, that defendant expected to have the witness at the next term and to prove by him that one Harper testified at the coroner’s inquest .altogether differently from what he had sworn before the grand jury…