Rogers v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

*149The offense is murder; the punishment, 25 years.

The killing occurred in Wood County on October 1, 1956. The indictment was returned in the 115th Judicial District Court of that county.

Venue was changed upon the court’s own motion to the 114th District Court of Smith County on November 30, 1956, the order reciting that an unsuccessful effort had been made to select a jury; that a fair and impartial jury could not be found in Wood County for the trial of the case; that the case had received wide publicity in five weekly newspapers published and circulated in Wood and adjoining…