Ex parte Skeen

—The appellant was, at the February term, 1871, of the Ripley Circuit Court, indicted for seduction. At the August term, 1871, of said court, the appellant moved the court for a change of venue from the judge of said court on account of the bias and prejudice of the said judge toward him. The motion was granted, and the cause was set down for hearing at the court-house in Versailles, Ripley county, Indiana, at a special term of the court, to begin on the 5th day of December, A. D. 1871, before the Honorable William A. Moore, judge of the twenty-second judicial district.

At the time and place…