Keel v. State

Appellant, J eff Keel, was convicted in the circuit court of Lafayette county of assault and battery upon Connie May Inmon, a schoolgirl fourteen years of age, and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred fifty dollars and to confinement in the county jail for nine months. The prosecution was begun before a justice of the peace of districet 5 of Lafayette county, resulting in appellant’s conviction, from which judgment he appealed to the circuit court.. Appellant urges a reversal of the case upon the following grounds: First, that the state failed to prove the venue; second, that the trial…