State v. Di Vincenti

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Vincent DiVincenti having been convicted and sentenced 1 on a bill of information charging him with gambling in violation of RS 14:90, in that he operated a racehorse handbook, prosecutes this appeal, relying for a reversal thereof on a number of alleged errors committed during the course of the trial that are presented for review in eight bills.

The first bill was reserved when the trial judge denied the motion for a continuance filed by counsel for the accused on the morning of April 16, 1956, predicated on the contentions that (1) defense counsel was scheduled to try…