Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Continuance. Practice in the Superior Court. Charge of Court. Before Judge SNEAD. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1880, . Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was charged with the crime of murder, in that on the fifteenth day of December, 1879, he killed one John G. Haralson; he was tried in May thereafter, found guilty by the jury, moved for a new trial, which the court refused, and he excepted.. 1. The first error complained of was the refusal of the court to grant him a continuance, or to postpone the trial of the case to some later day during the same term.
Messrs. William E.. Jackson and F. W. Capers, who had *508been appointed by the court to represent the prisoner, in support of their motion showed that…
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