State v. Bland

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Ernest George Bland, having been charged by information with armed robbery, in violation of Article 64 of the Criminal Code (R.S. 14:64),1 is appealing from his conviction thereunder and sentence to serve forty years at hard labor in the state penitentiary, relying for the reversal thereof on certain alleged errors committed in the course of the trial, to which timely objections were made and proper Bills of Exceptions reserved.

The first alleged errors grew out of the judge’s refusal to grant defendant a continuance. The record discloses that the…