No Venue Change For Lamar County Punishment Trial

Ashley Morrison

Sixty-second District Court Judge Will Biard denied a motion for a change of venue in the punishment phase of the murder trial of Ashley Morrison. She had pleaded guilty in November in her re-trial for killing her boyfriend’s grandmother, former North Lamar teacher Annie Sims. Morrison’s attorney, Heath Hyde of Sulphur Springs, had requested the change because of pre-trial publicity in the case.