Case ID: ga-app_45/html/0248-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

22207.
    Sapp v. The State.
    Decided April 30, 1932.
    
      Ernest J. Haar, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Walter G. Ear bridge, soUcilor-general, Julian Hartridge, contra.
   Luke, J.

The defendant’s conviction of assisting a prisoner to escape from the custody of an officer was amply authorized by the evidence.

In the motion for a new trial it is alleged that the court erred in refusing a motion for continuance based on the absence of a witness. The evidence on the motion to continue shows that the absent witness was a fugitive from justice, and that the case had previously been continued on account of his absence. The trial judge did not abuse his discretion in refusing a continuance.

The motion for a new trial was properly overruled.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., and Jenkins, P. •/., concur.