State v. Wright

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Levy, J.

In this case the defendant, Ben Wright, was tried and convicted, in the District Court of Bienville parish, of the crime of larceny, and by judgment of said court sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary, and has taken an appeal to this Court. The District Attorney, representing the State, has filed a motion for the continuance of the case, and supports it with an affidavit, in which he declares that the prisoner'has escaped from the custody of the law, and is now a fugitive from justice, as affiant, said District…