State v. Harper
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Mrst Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; R. D. Webb, Judge. Willie Harper was convicted of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The defendant appeals from a verdict convicting him of murder, without capital punishment, and from a sentence of lifetime imprisonment.
Complaint is made, in an assignment of errors in appellant’s brief, of the overruling of a motion for a continuance. The motion was based upon the allegation that the attorney who had charge of the defense was absent because of illness, and that his associates were not prepared to defend the ease.
The minutes of the trial show that the defendant’s counsel reserved a bill of exceptions to the overruling of the motion for a continuance; but it does not appear…
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