State v. Emory

The defendant was indicted for the crime of robbery, and on trial had was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of fifteen years.

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On the case being called the State announced ready for trial, but defendant said he .was not ready, because of the absence of a material witness — one Morfield — who lived in the city, who had not been subpoenaed although the defendant had been arrested for the robbery some two months, and the indictment had been found some three weeks before the trial occurred. The defendant’s application tor continuance, which seems to have been verbal, was…