People v. Fillian

The defendant seeks a review of her conviction on a charge of being a common prostitute. Her principal complaint of error relates to the refusal of the trial court to grant a continuance in order that she might have time to subpoena her witnesses and to prepare for trial.

The conceded facts show that she was arrested in the early morning of November 24, 1927. She was arraigned in the forenoon of the following day in the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit. After plea, her attorney demanded a jury trial and asked for an adjournment to give him time to subpoena witnesses and prepare for…