I've just been involved in a number of jury trials in East Texas. (Own a small oil company and do a fair bit of drilling in East Texas.)
You are -slightly- more likely to find defendant-sympathetic whites and nonwhites in an East Texas jury pool than a West Texas jury pool.
All the people that know/heard of/etc this lady will be kicked off the jury.
Martin County --- Stanton being the county seat --- are mean square-headed Germans. (The townspeople's nickname are "Soreheads.")
A Martin county jury is unsympathetic, the judge is so damn mean he made a father-who-figured-out-the-kids-weren't his pay child support anyway. (Seriously)
They'd give the death penalty in about 2 seconds. They'd even go to Wal-Mart and buy the rope.
>>A Martin county jury is unsympathetic, the judge is so damn mean <<
HA!
It will be hard to find anyone who hasn't heard of the incident for the jury. You think a change of venue might be requested.