Hagan v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted in Yolusia county on April 10th, 1913, for the murder of one Claude Nix, and pleaded not guilty. On the next day his attorney filed the following motion for a continuance: “Now comes the defendant by his attorneys U. M. Bennett and J. E. Peacock, and moves the court *270for a continuance of the above entitled cause, until the Fall term of the said court, upon the following grounds, to-wit:

1st. Because the defendant, John Hagan, cannot safely go to trial without the following witnesses, to-wit: Jessie Revels and Lizzie Revels, who will testify that at the time…