TATE, Justice.
The defendant was convicted of simple burglary, La.R.S. 14:62, and sentenced to eight years at hard labor. The assignment of error incisively contends: "The trial court erred in not granting a continuance to the defendant charged with burglarizing a gun store when the trial date followed the highly publicized Howard Johnson sniper holocaust by three days; and then compounded this error by not granting a new trial after the state's case at trial showed...
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