State v. Scales

The defendant’s second assignment of error is based on the denial of his motion for a change of venue or for a special venire from outside Guilford County. He contends that the publicity this alleged crime had received in the newspapers, over the radio and television stations in Greensboro - and High Point, had prejudiced the minds of the people of Guilford County against him to such an extent that his motion should have been allowed.

A motion for a change of venue or for a special venire from another county, upon the ground that the minds of the residents in the county in which the crime was…