Case ID: la-ann_37/html/0799-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Eenner, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 147.
    The State of Louisiana vs. Cy. Landrum.
    .Affidavit for continuance which does not aver inability to prove the facts referred to otherwise than by the witnesses of whose absence complaint is made, is defective, and the refusal of the continuance is not error.
    APPEAL from the Twenty-seventh District Court, Parish oí Rich-land. Williams, J.
    P. JET. Toler, District Attorney, for the State, Appellee.
    
      EE. 0. Montgomery tor Defendant and Appellant.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Eenner, J.

The affidavit for continuance, the refusal of which is the only error assigned, is fatally defective in this: that it fails to aver inability to prove the facts referred to otherwise than by the witnesses ■of whose absence he complains. State vs. Comstock, 36 Ann. 308. Bishop Cr. Proc., sec. 951 a.

Judgment affirmed.