State v. Lanahan
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. Joseph R. Edwards, Special Judge. (1) The right to change of venue is entirely of statutory regulation; and unless some authority is given by the statute, none exists. State v. Sanders, 106 Mo. 188; State exrel. v. Wofford, 119 M.o, 408. Aehange of venue is not a constitutional right, and it is entirely competent for the legislature to provide the terms upon which it shall be granted.
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Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. Joseph R. Edwards, Special Judge. (1) The right to change of venue is entirely of statutory regulation; and unless some authority is given by the statute, none exists. State v. Sanders, 106 Mo. 188; State exrel. v. Wofford, 119 M.o, 408. Aehange of venue is not a constitutional right, and it is entirely competent for the legislature to provide the terms upon which it shall be granted. State exrel. v. Wofford, 119 Mo. 375. (2) The application in the case for a change of venue from the county was not supported by the affidavits of two credible…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
At the March term, 1897, of the circuit court of Cole county the defendant, a negro, was indicted by the grand jury of said county, for murder in the first degree, for the killing of Willie Gains, a negro girl, in Jefferson City, on the twenty-fifth day of December, 1896. The indictment is in two counts. In the first count the murder is'alleged to have been *34committed by striking and wounding the deceased upon the head with a certain weapon, a description of which was to the jurors unknown, and in the other by cutting and stabbing her in and upon the lower part of her body with a certain knife.
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