Adams v. State

—Robert F. Adams seeks relief here from a conviction of the crime of perjury. Three errors are assigned, all of which are so lightly argued we would be justified in treating as abandoned.

The first assignment is based upon the denial of the defendant’s motion for a continuance, the grounds of which are the absence of two material witnesses of the defendant. A motion for continuance on the ground of the absence of one of these witnesses had been granted at the preceding term of court. As we held in Melbourne v. State, 51 Fla. 69, 40 South. Rep. 189, “defendants in criminal cases applying for…