State v. Lane

Dent, Judge:

Lando Lane, indicted for killing William Vance, in the circuit court of Mingo county, was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. He here relies on the following assignment of errors:

“First. .The court erred in overruling your petitioner’s motion for a continuance. Second. The court erred in not furnishing compulsory process for his witnesses. Your petitioner showed, in support of said motion, that he had made an effort to procure counsel, and believed that he had, until the day preceding the calling of his case for trial; that then…