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STATE v. BARNES

No. 78-224-C.A.

409 A.2d 988 (1979)

STATE v. Elbert BARNES and Dennis R. Gomes.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

December 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Roberts II, Atty. Gen., John E. Migliaccio, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

Mary E. Levesque, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant Dennis R. Comes.

Anthony E. Grilli, Providence, for defendant Elbert Barnes.

OPINION

DORIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for simple assault entered following a jury trial in the Superior Court. The defendants claim that the trial justice abused his discretion in denying the defendants' motion for a continuance and that he erred in denying their motion for a new trial.

The defendants, Elbert Barnes and Dennis R. Gomes, were inmates at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI). On November 19, 1976...

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