STATE v. DURIO

No. 63670.

371 So.2d 1158 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Rickey Ronell DURIO and Lawrence Lee Cooper, a/k/a Pete Montgomery.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude R. Sledge, Indigent Defender, Mansfield, for defendants-appellants.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., James Lynn Davis, Dist. Atty., Abbott J. Reeves, Director, Research and Appeals Division, Gretna, for plaintiff-appellee.


CALOGERO, Justice.

Defendants' principal complaint in this appeal is that the trial court erred in refusing to grant a motion for continuance filed twenty days following arraignment and five days prior to trial. For the reasons we relate hereinafter, and because defendants' other two arguments are also non-meritorious1 we affirm defendants' convictions and sentences.

Defendants Rickey Durio and Lawrence Cooper, Jr. were charged...

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