State v. Jones

SIMON, Justice.

Frank Jones was charged in a bill of information with having “while armed with a dangerous weapon, to-wit: a knife, robbed one Lloyd Alexander of $7.00 in U. S. currency,” in violation of LSA-R.S. 14 :- 64. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of ten years at hard labor at the State Penitentiary. During the course of the trial three bills of exception were reserved and perfected and are urged on this appeal for reversal of said conviction and sentence.

Bill of Exception No. 1 was reserved to the refusal by the trial court to grant a continuance verbally moved…