Handy v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

This is the second appeal from a charge of murder, in both of such instances the death penalty was given by the jury. See 114 S. W. (2d) 878.

There is but one question presented herein for review, and that is the ruling of the trial court in refusing appellant’s application for a change of venue. The application contained an allegation that there existed against appellant so great a prejudice that he could not obtain a fair trial in Hidalgo County. That the grounds of such prejudice were based upon the publicity given by the local newspapers of the trials that had been heretofore…