State v. King

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Brease.

The appellant, Rafe F. King, was indicted by the grand jury of York County for the murder of his wife, Mrs. Faye Wilson King, on January 25, 1929.

At the instance of the appellant, Hon. J. Henry Johnson, Circuit Judge, presiding in the Court of General Sessions of York County, granted a change of venue, because, in his opinion, a fair and impartial trial might not be had in that County, and directed that the trial of the cause be heard in Chester County.

The case was tried at the summer, 1929, term of the Court of General Sessions of…