Lucas v. State

The trial judge did not err in refusing to grant the defendant a change of venue, either because there was a probability or danger of lynching or other violence, or because an impartial jury could not be obtained in the county where the crime was committed.

DECIDED JANUARY 10, 1947.

The defendant, N. I. Lucas, was indicted for murder, alleged to have been committed in Twiggs County, Georgia. He presented a petition to the judge of the superior court of the circuit which embraced the county where the alleged crime was alleged to have been committed, asking for a change of venue on the following…