Guinn v. State

1. Motions to continue are within the sound discretion of the trial court, and this court will not interfere unless there is an abuse of such discretion. Code § 81-1419. Where, as here, the defendant on the morning of the trial announced ready as to an indictment charging him with molesting a minor child, and where, during the morning, this indictment was quashed and another returned identical in all respects with the first, except that certain portions of the anatomy were described by their technical rather than their colloquial terminology, it was not an abuse of discretion for the trial…