STATE v. SCALES

No. 650.

87 S.E.2d 916 (1955)

242 N.C. 400

STATE v. Richard SCALES.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Harry McMullan and Asst. Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton, for the State.

C. Clifford Frazier, Jr., and Stedman Hines, Greensboro, for defendant.


DENNY, Justice.

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.

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