Case ID: nev_19/html/0240-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Belknap, C. J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 1224.]
    THE STATE OF NEVADA, Respondent, v. ANTONE MARSHALL, Appellant.
    Criminal Law — Continuance—Absence of Witness — Affidavit.—An. affidavit for continuance, on the ground of the absence of a witness, is fatally defective, when it fails to show that there are not other persons by whom the defendant could prove the same facts that he expected to prove by the absent witness.
    Appeal from the District Court-of the Third Judicial District, Esmeralda County.
    
      J. F. Boiler, for Appellant:
    
      W. H. Davenport, Attorney General, for Respondent:
   By the Court,

Belknap, C. J.:

Appellant was convicted of the crime of manslaughter upon an indictment charging him with murder. The only exception arises upon the order of the district court denying a motion for a continuance of the cause, made upon the ground of the absence of one of the witnesses for the defendant. The affidavit upon which the motion is based is fatally defective in this: it fails to show that there are not other persons by whom the defendant could prove the same facts that he expected to prove by the absent witness.

The judgment of the district court is affirmed.