State v. Griffin

HORTON, Judge.

I

Defendant first assigns error to the trial court’s grant of the State’s motion to change the venue of this case from Union County. The State’s motion was based on the physical limitations of the Union County facilities and the desire to begin the trial on 12 January 1998, the trial date set by the trial court. Defendant contends that the defendant had a right to be tried “in the place of the crime” and the citizens of Union County had a right “to see justice done in their own community.” State v. Chandler, 324 N.C. 172, 184, 376 S.E.2d 728, 736 (1989). Our Supreme Court pointed…