State v. Charles

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendant has appealed from a sentence under conviction of horse stealing. His grounds of complaint axe that the court improperly refused his application to have his case, which had been fixed for trial for a particular day, reassigned for a later day of the term, and because on the trial of the cause, Davis, one of the witnesses on the stand for the State, was permitted, over his objections, to testify that in answer to a telephonic message sent by himself from St. Martinsville to one Numa Gilbeau (the alleged owner of the horse…