Poe v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM FRANKLIN. Appeal in error from the Circuit Court of Frank» lin county. J. J. Williams, J.
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The prisoners were convicted of murder in the first •degree, and sentenced one of them to death, and the other to imprisonment for life, and appealed in error.
The first error relied on is in the action of the circuit court in refusing the application of the prisoners for a change of venue. By the act of 1875, •ch. 6, it is left “to the sound discretion of the court’ whether there shall be a change of venue. And the •discretion of the trial judge, we have repeatedly held, *675will not be revised except in a clear ease of abuse of that discretion: Holcomb v. The State, 8 Lea, 417; Porter v. The…
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