Case Name: STATE v. MILLER; SAME v. BRIDGES et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1922-10-30
Citations: 152 La. 592
Docket Number: No. 25382; No. 25394
Parties: STATE v. MILLER. SAME v. BRIDGES et al.
Judges: By the WHOLE COURT.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 152
Pages: 591–593

Head Matter:
(93 South. 911)
No. 25382.
No. 25394.
STATE v. MILLER. SAME v. BRIDGES et al.
(Oct. 30, 1922.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Criminal law <§==>1974(2) — Delay in which to move in arrest of judgment discretionary; discretion not abused.
The granting or refusing of a delay in which to move in arrest of judgment lies in the sound discretion of the trial judge; and it is no abuse of discretion to refuse such delay, when requested on the last day of the term and after a sufficient delay had already been granted.
Case No. 25382:
Appeal from Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Winn; J. B. Crow, Judge.
Case No. 25394:
Appeal from Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Union; J. B. Crow, Judge.
Walt Miller, charged with manufacturing, and Lonnie Bridges and another, charged with possessing, intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, were convicted of said offenses, and they appeal.
Affirmed.
Case No. 25382:
Moss & Peters, of Winnfield, for appellant
A. y. Coco, Atty. Gen., E. A. O’Sullivan, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Earl E. Kidd, Dist. Atty., of Winnfield (T. S. Walmsley, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
Case No. 25394:
IT. G. Fields, of Farmerville, for appellants.
'A. V. Coco, Atty. Gen., E. A. O’Sullivan, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and S. L. Digby, Dist. Atty., of Farmerville (T. S. Walmsley,- of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
By the WHOLE COURT.

Opinion:
ST. PAUL, J.
The defendants were charged, the one with manufacturing, and the others with possessing, intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, and by motions to quash and for a new trial, they attack the constitutionality of Act 39 of 1921 (Extra Session) commonly called the "Hood Act."
Their ground of attack is the same as set up in State v. Marceaux, 93 South. 916- this day decided adversely to the claims of appellant.
II.
Lonnie Bridges and Bill Frost complain that, after their motion for a new trial was overruled, they asked for time in which to prepare a motion in, arrest of judgment, which the court refused. As to this the judge says in his "per curiam":
" Counsel had been given five days in which to prepare the motion, and it was then the last day of court, the matter was largely in the discretion of the court, and I do not think I abused that discretion. He did not.point out.or state to the court any ground upon which he could basq any motion in arrest of judgment, and has not yet done so. In fact, I was certain that he merely wanted to reiterate the grounds set up in his motion to quash the indictment. His rights in that respect have been reserved in another bill of exception" —citing 16 Corpus Juris, 1263, 1264, and State v. Tinney. 26 La. Ann. 460.
We think the judge correctly states that the matter was largely in his discretion, and that there has been no abuse of that discretion in this case.
Decree.
It is therefore ordered that the judgments appealed from be affirmed.
Post, p. 604.