HAWES, Justice.
Prentice McCrary was convicted of rape. His motion for a new trial was overruled and he appealed, enumerating three grounds of error.
1. Defendant's motion for a continuance based on the ground of unfavorable newspaper publicity attendant upon the trial and conviction during the preceding week of the accused's co-indictee was properly overruled. The basis of this motion was that because of such unfavorable publicity a fair and impartial jury...
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