State v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Ninth Judicial District Court, parish of Concordia. Houah, J. First — The Supreme Court cannot revise arefusal to grant a continuance. A decision thereon-involves a question of fact. State vs. Wilson, 23 An. 559. Second — Tlie time allowed counsel appointed by tbe court to defend the accused to prepare-his defense is regulated by the judge a quo.
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APPEAL from the Ninth Judicial District Court, parish of Concordia. Houah, J. First — The Supreme Court cannot revise arefusal to grant a continuance. A decision thereon-involves a question of fact. State vs. Wilson, 23 An. 559. Second — Tlie time allowed counsel appointed by tbe court to defend the accused to prepare-his defense is regulated by the judge a quo. State vs. Ferris, 16 An. 425. Third — Continuances are left very much to the discretion of the presiding judge, and his refusal will not be revised on appeal, when it appears that no special reason is disclosed for-delay. State vs.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
The defendant was indicted and tried for the crime-of rape, upon a female child, under nine years of age, and on a verdict, of guilty without capital punishment, was sentenced to imprisonment, at. hard labor, in the State Penitentiary, for the term of his natural life.
On appeal to this Oourt, he complains that the District Judge-illegally refused to grant him a continuance, prayed for on the day of trial, and to allow him a new trial, on the ground that the counsel appointed by the Court had not sufficient time to prepare his defense.
He…
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