Gallagher v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

In this case appellant was indicted in the District Court of Rains County on January 1, 1907, charged with the offense of murder. The case was called for trial in the following December in the same county and resulted in a conviction of murder in the second degree with appellant’s punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five jrears.

1. When the case was called for trial appellant made application, in all respects statutory, for a change of venue. The proof on this question covers probably one hundred pages of the record and even a brief summary of…