State v. Harding

COPELAND, Justice.

Under Assignment of Error No. 1, defendant contends that the trial court erroneously denied his motion requesting a change of venue on the ground that unfavorable and inflammatory pretrial publicity would prevent him from receiving a fair and impartial trial in Iredell County.

In support of his motion, argued about one month before trial, defendant’s attorney offered seven newspaper clippings concerning the murders and an affidavit to the effect that he, defense counsel, had talked with fifteen to twenty people in the county about the murders, all of whom indicated that they…