Appellant was convicted of the theft of two mules, and his punishment fixed at four years’ confinement in the penitentiary. The evidence is amply sufficient to sustain the verdict.
[1] The application for a continuance shows such a lack of diligence to procuré the attendance of witnesses as to justify the court in overruling it. Giles v. State, 148 S. W. 317. Besides, the testimony, admissions, and statements of the appellant himself are so unreasonable, contradictory, and confusing as to clearly justify the court to believe none of the claimed absent witnesses, none of whom had ever been subpoenaed, would testify as claimed by him, and, if they had, that their testimony would not probably be true, and would not have changed the result of the trial.
[2] The court did not err in not giving appellant’s requested charge on circumstantial evidence. The admissions and testimony of the appellant himself unquestionably show that he took the mules at the time and place they were stolen, and he was, within two or three hours thereafter, caught in the actual possession thereof some 12 or 14 miles from where he had taken them. It is only when the case is proven by circumstantial evidence alone that a charge on circumstantial evidence is necessary. Section 813, subd. 2, p. 531, White Code Or. Proc.
The court gave a full and fair charge in the ease, submitting every issue in any way raised by the testimony, all of which was found against appellant, with the amplest evidence to support it.
The judgment is affirmed.