Crow v. State

For the murder and attendant robbery of one Thomas Edgar Pearson on June 28, 1934, in Miller County, Arkansas, appellant was duly indicted as principal and upon trial was convicted as charged and her punishment assessed at life imprisonment in the State penitentiary, from which this appeal comes.

The first assignment of error relates to the trial court’s refusal to grant a change of venue upon appellant’s application therefor. In support of her application for change of venue, appellant filed the affidavits of a immber of witnesses the form and tenor of which are as follows:

“State of Arkansas,

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