STATE v. WIGGINS

No. 57951.

337 So.2d 1172 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Eugene WIGGINS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 6, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyall G. Shiell, Jr., New Orleans, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., William L. Brockman, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of armed robbery, La.R.S. 14:64, and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor. None of the four assignments of error argued to this court possess reversible merit:

Assignment 1: On the morning of the trial, the defendant moved to discharge his retained counsel of five months and for another continuance, in order to obtain another counsel of his choosing. The accused had obtained three continuances previously...

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