Kendrick v. State

'Smith, J.

Appellants were separately indicted, tried and convicted for selling intoxicating liquors, ¡but the issues raised on their separate appeals are so nearly identical that a single opinion will suffice to dispose of both cases.

A motion was filed in each case for a change of venue, and the supporting affidavits appear to have been made by the same affiants in each case. There were sixteen of these affidavits, but only ten of the affiants were examined on the hearing of the petitions. These affiants gave testimony to the following effect. The death of the sheriff made a special election…