Malone v. State

64 So. 632 | Ala. Ct. App. | 1914

WALKER, P. J.

In reference to a motion of a defendant in a criminal case for the continuance or postponement of his trial in order that some of his witnesses might be brought into court by attachment, it was said, in the opinion rendered in the case of Palmer v. State, 165 Ala. 129, 51 South. 358: “To fasten error upon the trial court, it must be made to appear that the application was seasonably made, and accompanied by a showing as to what the absent witness is expected to swear, in order that the court may judge of its materiality.”

Waiving the inquiry as to the defendant’s having-exercised due diligence to secure the attendance of the witnesses, it is enough to say, in justification of the court’s action on his application, that he did not in any way indicate to the court that he expected to elicit any material testimony from either of the witnesses. It is not made to appear that error was committed by the court in refusing to delay the trial until compulsory process could be served on two witnesses, the nature of whose expected testimony was not disclosed, and for neither of whom was a subpoena requested until the afternoon of the day which intervened between that for which the case had been set for trial on the docket and that on which the tidal 'was entered upon.

Affirmed.