Case ID: sw_182/html/0451-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SMITH v. STATE.
    (No. 3903.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 12, 1916.
    Rehearing Denied Feb. 9, 1916.)
    Criminal Law <&wkey;608 — Continuance — Illness oe Defendant — Evidence.
    Where, on an application for a continuance on the ground that defendant, charged with violating the local option law, was sick and unable to go to trial, the court sent a physician to examine defendant, who swore that he could not find anything wrong with defendant, and that, though defendant complained of pains in his back, he had a normal pulse, no fever, and no visible or ascertainable signs of any disease, and was able to go to trial, and no other evidence was offered, the overruling of the application was not error.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 1350, 1364-1368; Dec. Dig. &wkey;608.]
    Appeal from District Court, Walker County; S. W. Dean, Judge.
    I. N. Smith, Jr., was convicted of violating the local option law, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    A. T. McKinney, of Huntsville, for appellant. C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   HARPER, J.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at one year’s confinement in the state penitentiary.

The only ground presented claiming error is that the court erred in overruling his application for a continuance. An application was presented alleging that appellant was sick and unable to go to trial. The court sent a physician to the residence of appellant. The physician examined appellant and swears he could not find anything wrong with him; that, while appellant complained of pains in his back, yet he had a normal pulse, no fever, and no visible or ascertainable signs of any disease; that he was able to go to trial. No other evidence was offered. There was no error in overruling the application on this ground. He also contends that the attorneys of the Walker county bar would defend no man charged with bootlegging, and he desired further time to secure an attorney. The record before us discloses that he was defended by a very able member of the Walker county bar, Hon. A. T. McKinney.

The judgment is affirmed. 
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