Court Opinion

ID: 4905570
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:56:17.80766+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:06.465782
License: Public Domain

White, P. J.
Besides the reasons given by the judge for his action in overruling the application for continuance, and which were perhaps amply sufficient in themselves, the want of probability of the truth of the matters proposed to be established by the absent witnesses, judged of in the light of the evidence adduced on the trial, might well warrant us in refusing to revise or interfere with the ruling. Dowdy v. The State, ante, p. 292.
The only other questions involved in the appeal are the sufficiency of the evidence going to corroborate the testimony of the accomplices who had turned State’s witnesses, and the charge of the court upon the law applicable to that branch of the case. To our minds, there can be no doubt as to the ample corroboration of the accomplices in the most material matters going to establish defendant’s guilt; and so far as the charge of the court was concerned, it stated the law fully, and if defendant desired more apt and pertinent instructions he should have requested, and doubtless the court would have given them. When the judge has charged the law applicable to the case in distinct and comprehensive terms, this court will not reverse the case simply because the charge might have been fuller and more pertinent, especially where the defects in those particulars have not been attempted to be corrected by the defendant through additional instructions.
There being no error apparent on the record, the judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.