State v. Fowler

Ness, Justice:

Appellant, Joseph Fowler, was convicted in the Court of General Sessions of Lexington County óf accessory after the fact of the murder of highway patrolman Benjamin Strickland, a resident of Lexington County and member of the highway patrol for seventeen years. Appellant was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. He urges error by way of three exceptions, none of which support reversal.(1) Did the trial judge abuse his discretion in refusing to grant appellant’s motion for a change of venue, made immediately prior to trial, which was based on prejudicial pretrial publicity?(2) Did…