Dean v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, Peggy Stacey Dean, and Wash Jones were jointly indicted by the grand jury of Perry county, charged with committing the offense of adultery. At her separate trial thereunder she was convicted, and she has filed a transcript of the record in this court with a motion for an appeal and by her counsel relies upon a number qf grounds as constituting reversible error, the material ones of which are: (1) That the court erred in overruling her motion for a continuance and forcing her into trial on the next day after her arrest, and…