State v. Thomas.

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquors for sale in a parish where the sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited, and sentenced to pay a fine of $400.00 and costs and, in default of payment of fine and costs, to be imprisoned in the parish jail for a period of five months. He has appealed.

During the course of the trial, a bill of exception was taken to the overruling of a motion for a continuance. The defendant’s counsel did not appear at the hearing of this appeal or file a brief in support of it.

The motion for continuance was based on two grounds,…