Banks v. State

A. B. Banks was convicted before a .jury for receiving or allowing to be received in the American Exchange Trust Company a banking corporation of Little Bock, Arkansas, of which he was president, deposits after he knew that the bank was insolvent. The jury fixed his punishment at imprisonment for one year in the State Penitentiary, and from the judgment upon the verdict the defendant has appealed.

The first assignment of error is that the court erred in refusing to grant the defendant a continuance. The granting or refusing of continuances is within the sound legal discretion of the court, and…