Haggett v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Haggett v. State, 99 Miss. 844 (Miss. 1911)
56 So. 172
Smith
Haggett v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The testimony of the witness Ammons is not in conflict with the evidence of the two physicians, and from the evidence of these physicians it is manifest that appellant was too ill to be present at her trial, and consequently the motion for a continuance should have been sustained. Corbin v. State, 55 South. 43.
Reversed and remanded.
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- Emma Haggett v. State
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- Criminai, Law. Continuance. Illn.ess of accused. Trial in absence. It was reversible error to try accused, for a misdemeanor in her absence when she was unable to be present at the trial on account of sickness, a continuance should have been granted.