Hall v. State

The defendant, Robert M. Hall, was indicted and convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Lee County, Alabama, of violating the Alabama Controlled Substances Act, Act No. 1407, 1971 Regular Session, specifically of selling marijuana to one Robert M. Patterson. The trial court imposed the maximum sentence of fifteen years in the penitentiary. From the judgment of conviction and the imposition of sentence he brings this appeal.

Before trial, appellant filed a motion for a change of venue on the ground that Judge Tyner, the trial judge, on the day before appellant’s trial, had announced in…