Morgan v. State

Appellant was convicted on his trial upon a charge of having embezzled certain money belonging to the Consumers’ Ice & Coal Company.

The first error assigned for the reversal of the judgment sentencing him to the penitentiary is the refusal of the court to grant his petition for a change of venue. It appears, however, that this petition was not filed until appellant had waived formal arraignment and entered his plea of not guilty and the impaneling of the jury to try the case had progressed to the point where four jurors had been found qualified and had been accepted both by appellant and the…