State v. Rodgers

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Emmit Rodgers, alias Joe-Brown, having been charged with “theft of mill screen and heavy copper * * * property of Crown Zellerbach Corporation,”' prosecutes this appeal from his conviction and sentence thereunder, relying on two Bills of Exceptions both of which have their basis in the admissibility of inculpatory statements allegedly made to James I. “Jack” Simmons, yard foreman of the corporation.

The first bill was reserved when the trial judge refused to grant defendant’s motion for a continuance, requested in order that defense counsel might file a…