State v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

On January 22, 1923, 0. F. Brown was convicted of an assault upon Carmen Trabulse with intent to commit rape. He appeals.

1. Complaint is made of the overruling of a motion for a change of venue on the grounds that public opinion had been so inflamed against the defendant as to prevent his having a fair trial in the county and that the district judge was prejudiced against him.

The defendant in his verified motion said that bitter and inflammatory newspaper articles charging him with being guilty had been published in the county, causing the…