Dobbs v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

This is a companion case to that of Milton Dobbs v. State, 50 Texas Crim. Rep., 100 S. W. Rep., 947.

The first ground of the motion for a new trial complains that the court erred in refusing to grant the application for change of venue. D. H. Carpenter, sheriff of Camp County testified that Camp County is a very small county, being only about twelve miles wide and thirty miles long; that there are about twelve hundred and fifty qualified voters in Camp…