Chisolm v. State

Silas Chisolm seeks relief here from a conviction of. the crime of murder in the first degree. We shall first consider the seventh assignment, which is based upon the denial of the defendant’s motion for a change of venue. The statute regulating a change of venue, under which this motion tvas made, is Section 3997 of the General Statutes of 1906, Compiled Laws of 1914, and reads as follows: “Whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the presiding judge of any of the circuit courts of this State that the venue of any cause, then pending in such court, should be changed either…