State v. Jones

Lynch, Judge:

The important and the only vital question submitted for investigation and decision upon this writ concerns adverse rulings upon defendant’s motions: First, to postpone the trial to the term next succeeding that at which the indictment was found because of the absence of necessary witnesses cognizant of facts material to establish the innocence of the defendant of the charge preferred against him, and, second, a continuance of two hours within which to prepare and file the affidavits of his father and defendant’s wife to be read and considered in support of the first motion,

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