Case Name: Irene Jones, alias Harris, v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1908-11-18
Citations: 55 Tex. Crim. 123
Docket Number: No. 4073
Parties: Irene Jones, alias Harris, v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 123–124

Head Matter:
Irene Jones, alias Harris, v. The State.
No. 4073.
Decided November 18, 1908.
Harder—First Application lor conirnuanco.
Where upon trial for murder, defendant’s first application for continuance complied with all legal requisites and the absent testimony was material, the same should have been granted.
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Helms.
Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, fifteen j’ears imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
F. J. McCord, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and her punishment assessed at fifteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
There is but one question that we deem necessary to pass upon in this case, and that is appellant's first application for continuance. The same has all the legal requisites of a first application, and asks for a continuance for the want of three or four witnesses who reside in the city of Dallas, and the application shows that proper subpoena had been issued for same, but the return of the sheriff shows the witnesses not found. The application states the residence of each witness in the city, street and number, and says that said testimony is desired, and that appellant expects1 to prove by said witnesses a complete case of self-defense. Appellant and her sister, during the progress of the trial, swore to a case of perfect self-defense. This is the condition of this record. It follows that the court erred in refusing to grant the continuance.
The judgment is accordingly reversed and the cause is remanded.
Reversed and remanded.