People v. Shugar

Defendant, Richard Paul Shugar, was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree.* 1 When defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied, he brought this appeal raising several claims of reversible error.

Defendant’s first contention is that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a change of venue. On July 19, 1968, defendant filed a written pre-trial motion for a change of venue and a continuance until after January 1969. The motion was denied on July 29, 1968. Defendant challenges on appeal only the trial court’s denial of the motion for change of venue because the continuance…