Cummins v. State

E'theidgeí, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Marvin Cummins, the appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted of rape upon the person of Jennie Lou Vaughn, a female about fifteen years of age, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary therefor. When the cause was called for trial, the appellant filed a motion for a change of venue, in which he alleged that the population of Yazoo City was about seven thousand; that the population of the entire county was about forty thousand; that there were two newspapers published in Yazoo City with a general circulation in the…