State v. Longorio

The defendant has appealed from a conviction for manslaughter and a sentence to five years at hard labor.

The sole question is whether a continuance asked for on the ground of the absence of witnesses was, or not, properly refused.

The judge says that because of the absence of the two witnesses in question, whom the sheriff had 'been unable to find, he, of his own motion, postponed the trial from the morning of one day to late in the afternoon of the next, the defendant’s counsel not then asking for anything more than a postponement; that when the case was called the second time, he having…