Williams v. State

Shackleford, C. J.:

Jim Williams, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of an assault with intent to murder and sentenced to a term of ten years in the state prison.

*91Four errors are assigned, the first being that “The court erred in refusing to permit counsel for the defendant below to prepare in writing a motion for a continuance in said cause, and file the same.”

We find that on Monday, the 26th day of Mlarch, 1906, the case was set for trial on the following Friday, that defendant made no effort to have his witnesses summoned until the afternoon of the 29th, when his counsel handed a list of…