Bethel v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court of Record in Dade County upon an information charging a serious statutory offense and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. From this judgment he took writ of error.

A number of errors are assigned but only two of them bring into question action of the trial court which was not only erroneous but tended to prejudice the plaintiff in error on the trial of the case.

The case was begun in the morning and at three o’clock in the afternoon the State rested its case. The defendant made a motion to recess the hearing until…