Case ID: sw2d_105/html/0890-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KRUEGER, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COOK v. STATE.
    No. 19028.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 26, 1937.
    Ray Holder, of Dallas, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of murder with malice, and his punishment was assessed at death.

■ This is'a companion case to that of Huey Fulton v. State, decided by this court in March, 1937, and reported in 103 S.W. (2d) 755. In this case as in that case the appellant filed an application for a change of venue and the court heard evidence thereon. The testimony adduced a't the hearing thereof is in all its material parts similar to that adduced at the hearing of the former case, both of said cases pending in the same county and same court. In the former case we held that the court erred in not granting a change of venue. For the reasons there assigned, without again entering upon a discussion of the facts, we are constrained to hold that the trial judge should have sustained appellant’s application and changed the venue.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the trial court be, and the same is, reversed, and the cause remanded. ;

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.