State v. Grune

Citations

• 72 Wash. 448
• 130 P. 751
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1485

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law — Trial—Continuance—Discretion—Necessity or Showing — Speedy Trial. It is discretionary with the trial court to grant a continuance, after a criminal case has been set for trial, on its appearing that a material witness for the state, whose name was indorsed on the information, is temporarily absent from the state; and the accused cannot complain that he was denied a speedy trial or that a showing was not made as to the issuance of a subpoena for the witness, and the substance of his evidence, where, the accused was brought to trial within sixty days after the information was filed as required by Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2312.</p> <p>Larceny — By False Representations — Evidence—Sufficiency. A conviction of grand larceny by false representations is sustained where it appears that the accused represented that he had three hundred tons of potatoes, which he thereupon sold under an agreement to ship them from week to week, that he received as first payment a check for $500, cashed the same and left the state, and when arrested admitted that he did not have any potatoes.</p>