Williams v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is rape; the punishment, death.

This conviction must be reversed because of the failure of the trial court to grant appellant’s motion for change of venue. Therefore the facts will not be recited.

The voir dire examination of the members of the jury selected to try this case reveals that at least five members thereof had read newspaper accounts of the appellant’s connection with the crime for which he was tried. The nature of the news accounts must be specifically noted. Those who had read them learned the following facts which, since the appellant did not…