State v. Benson

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

We granted a writ of certiorari, 254 La. 275, 223 So.2d 406, in this case on the application of the defendant, William Joseph Benson, Jr., in order that we might review the ruling of the trial judge denying his plea of prescription on the ground that more than one year had elapsed since the date of the filing of the bill of information charging him in two counts, first with letting a disorderly place and second with gambling, both misdemeanors in violation of L.R.S. 14:1051 and L.R.S. 14:902 respectively.

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