Watson v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Lavarn C. Watson was convicted of rape and sentenced to a term of twenty years. Ten years are to be served in the penitentiary, followed by ten years on probation.

1. It was not error for the trial court to refuse to grant appellant’s motion for a change of venue or a continuance. The basis for the motions appears to be newspaper and television publicity surrounding the arrest of defendant, a black police officer, for the rape of an eighteen-year-old white woman. Code Ann. § 27-1201 provides for a change of venue when an impartial jury cannot be obtained in the county…