Perez v. State

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

Appellant Julian Perez was one of three men arrested for robbery of a Safeway Grocery Store. On February 11, 1963, he was charged with robbery by information, and trial was set in Garland Circuit Court for May 9, 1963. On the morning of May 9th, an article appeared in the local newspaper relating the facts of the robbery and stating that the other two men charged in the same robbery had pleaded guilty and been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. In chambers before trial, appellant moved the court for a continuance because of the article and introduced…