Turner v. State

1. The exceptions under special ground 1 deal with the refusal of the court to grant a continuance. The court did not abuse its discretion in denying a continuance. In Loyd v. State, 45 Ga. 57 (4), the court said: “It is no ground for a new trial that the court refused to continue, because of the absence of one of the prisoner’s counsel, on whom he principally relied, from sickness, the affidavit for continuance only saying that the affiant ‘had been informed by letter of the sickness;’ especially if it appear that other competent counsel are emplojred and do appear in the trial.” See also in…