State v. Brumfield

The defendant, Fred Wilson Brumfield, was tried by jury and found guilty of manslaughter, La.R.S. 14:31. He was sentenced to eighteen years in the State Penitentiary. Fie appeals his sentence and conviction, relying on 21 bills of exceptions to obtain a reversal.

The first two bills of exceptions allege the trial court erred by refusing to grant a continuance of the trial date. Defense counsel contends that because he had received an amended bill of particulars only a week before and, secondly, because a sanity commission report was just filed into the record on the day of the trial without…