Dodson v. State

Plaintiff in error, defendant in the trial court, was charged with the murder of Clarence Trammell, and found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, with his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of 25 years.

The several assignments of error set out in defendant’s brief may be grouped thus: First, error in the refusal of the court to grant a change of venue; second, that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict; third, that instruction No. 21, given by the court, was erroneous and prejudicial to the rights of the defendant.

In the motion for a change of…