State v. McCart

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant, Hampton McCart, is appealing from his conviction on an indictment charging him and J. V. Keith with conspiring “to commit an aggravated battery with a certain dangerous weapon called a car crank, upon one Van Miller,” and his sentence thereunder to serve two years in the state penitentiary, Keith having pleaded guilty to the charge and having been given a suspended sentence.

The first bill, reserved when the trial judge overruled the defendant’s motion for a continuance predicated on the absence of a witness (his brother) in the armed forces, is without merit…