State v. Parmenter

*514The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J. :

Charles Grayson Parmenter, who killed Frank T. Bruner, was prosecuted upon a charge of murder in the first degree, convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of thirteen years. Upon his appeal he complains of rulings made upon applications for change of venue. He first applied for a change to a county other than Bourbon, where the homicide occurred, because of the prejudice of the people of that county against him. As manifestations of local prejudice he showed that after the preliminary…