Maxwell v. State

Townsend, Judge.

Special ground 1 reads as follows: “Because the court erred in its refusal to grant the movant’s motion for continuance of the trial of his case until a subsequent term of court upon the grounds set forth in his application and affidavit properly filed with the court because of the publicity given this case, which was tended to excite the public and influence them against your defendants which said motion was overruled. That the refusal to grant said motion was unquestionably error.” The rule that special grounds of a motion for a new trial must be complete within themselves…