State v. Stegner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Galhoun JDistriet Court. Defendants were indicted and -convicted of maintaining a nuisance by keeping a place for tbe unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors. Both unite in- the appeal to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
The only ruling complained of by defendants’ counsel is the overruling of a motion to continue the cause, which was based upon the absence of defendants’ attorney occasioned by sickness. A like motion at a prior term, based upon the same ground, had been sustained. The indictment had been found about fifteen months before the trial. It appears that defendants had ample time to prepare for trial, and to secure another attorney to take the place of their counsel when he became incapable through sickness to attend to the case. At all events, the motion was addressed in a large measure to the…
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