Cline v. State

The defendant and one Otis Lee were indicted on a charge of manufacturing prohibited liquors at the same time and place. The indictments were separately drawn, but the facts in the case were substantially the same, except as to the identity of the parties. Otis Lee was tried before a jury and convicted. When defendant’s case was called at the same term and same week of the court, he made a motion for a continuance, setting out the facts of the former trial of Lee and his conviction before the jury, and that all of the jurors had heard the evidence and verdict in the Lee Case, and had…