State v. Taylor

The defendant, Lonnie Taylor, Columbus Jennings and Vera Fox, or Rogers, all negroes, were charged, by an information filed in the Circuit Court of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, with the crime of murder in the first degree, in that they shot and killed Paul Ritter, a white man, on the 12th day of October, 1930. Defendant applied for a change of venue from the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit, which consists of the counties of Bollinger, Madison, Perry, St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve. The application was overruled, but the court of its own motion granted the defendant a change of venue from…