Stewart v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, death.

We note in their order appellant’s bills of exception. He complains of the refusal of a continuance sought because of his alleged illness and weakness, of such nature as to render him incapable of “coherently following the progress of the trial or of aiding his attorneys, in discussion of facts which might be testified to in said cause.” This bill of exception is qualified to show, first, that it was a second application, and, second, that it appeared that the night before the call of the case for trial appellant had slashed his arm…