State v. Eaton

MONROE, O. J.

Defendants, having been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged, present their case to this court upon two bills of exception, as follows:

[1, 3] Bill 1 was reserved to the overruling of a motion for continuance, filed on April 18, 1919, in which it is alleged that they had been unable to secure counsel to represent them until they were appointed by the court, and thereafter had been incarcerated outside of the city of Monroe, and were unable to confer with the counsel so appointed “until this date,” and that the counsel affirm that they have not had time to prepare the…