Folks v. State

Upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree by shooting Lonnie Studstill in Levy County, Florida, Floyd Folks was convicted of manslaughter and took writ of error to a judgment imposing a seven years sentence.

A motion was made for a change of venue upon the ground that it. is not practicable to obtain in the county a fair and impartial jury for the trial of the case, because the prejudice against the defendant is so widespread and acute and -because the deceased “belonged to a family, the members of which either by blood or marriage, is very numerous, and there is scarcely a…