This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cotton Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8440 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 21 July 1899, p.7 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Change of Venue Franklin, Tex., 20 July – The case of the state vs. J. M. Cotton, indicted by the grand jury of this county for criminal assault on a little girl, charged to have been committed in Milam county, was called for trial today. The defendant asked for a continuance and the court changed the venue of the case back to Milam county. The defendant then had a habeas corpus hearing for bail and Judge W.C. Talliaferro remanded him to jail without bail. The defendant appealed to the court of criminal appeals, but that court does not meet again until October.