Barronton v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In Griffin v. State, 59 Ga. App. 334 (1 S. E. 2d, 41), this court held: “Under Code § 27-1201, it is the duty of the trial judge, upon his own motion or upon it being shown at a hearing on a motion for change of venue ‘that there is probability of danger of lynching or other violence’ to grant a change of venue. This provision is mandatory. See Johns v. State, 47 Ga. App. 58 (169 S. E. 688); Graham v. State, 141 Ga. 812, 817 (82 S. E. 282). The evidence adduced upon the hearing of the motion in the present case was largely opinion evidence, without any…