Handy v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Appellant insists in his motion for rehearing that we were in error in not sustaining his contention that the trial court should have ordered a change of venue.

We are cited to a number of cases which are thought to sustain appellant’s position, particularly Bond v. State, 121 Tex. Cr. R. 269, 50 S. W. (2d) 813; Richardson v. State, 126 Tex. Cr. R. 223, 70 S. W. (2d) 1003; Blackshear v. State, 126 Tex. Cr. R. 417, 72 S. W. (2d) 601. It is difficult to find a case which is a controlling precedent upon the question of change of venue for the…