Anschicks v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Criminal Court of Calvert, liobertson county. Tried before the Hon. B. W. Battle. Anschicks was convicted of rape, and punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary. A motion for change of venue was made, and being resisted by the District Attorney, was overruled. The testimony on the motion is sufficiently given in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
The result of the investigation, instituted at the suggestion of the District Attorney in, opposition to the application for a change of venue, may be summed up as follows: That there had been great feeling and "prejudice against defendant — two of the witnesses introduced by the District Attorney say as great as they had ever known to exist against any man; hut in the opinion of eight witnesses from various parts of the county, this prejudice had so far sub*149sided that they believed the defendant could have a fair trial. More than one of these witnesses state directly,…
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