State v. John

The defendant, appellant, was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor without a license, was condemned to serve nine months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $500, and, in default of payment of the fine, to serve an additional term of six months in prison.

He complains of the ruling of the trial judge granting the district attorney a continuance on account of the absence of two witnesses for the state, without requiring the district attorney to make an affidavit or disclose what he intended to prove by the absent witnesses. The witnesses referred ' to were the sheriff and a deputy sheriff,…