STATE v. GOODSON

No. 81-K-3094.

412 So.2d 1077 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. Danny GOODSON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Patrick Phillips, Indigent Defender Office, Bossier City, for relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry N. Brown, Dist. Atty., for respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.

The question presented here is whether the relator, who is charged in the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Bossier with the aggravated rape of a Bossier City woman, should be granted a change of venue because a fair and impartial trial cannot be obtained in that parish due to the media publicity concerning his involvement in numerous rapes in a neighboring parish.

In Caddo Parish, beginning in November, 1980, a white...

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