Meyers v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of seduction and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. A number of errors are assigned and urged for a reversal of tbe cause.

It is first argued that tbe court erred in overruling Ms motion for continuance on account of tbe absence of certain witnesses, but Ms motion in this regard failed to allege one of tbe necessary statutory grounds for a continuance, — that he believed the testimony of the absent witness to be true. Section 1270, Crawford & Moses’ Digest; Estes v. State, 180 Ark. 656, 22 S. W. (2d) 172; Weaver v. State, ante p. 147. It is not…