Bentley v. Moore

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition from this Court to prohibit the respondent, justice of the peace of Pike County, from proceeding to. try petitioner on a charge of possessing alcoholic beverages in dry territory for the purpose of sale. The ground on which the writ is sought is that the justice of the peace improperly refused to grant a change of venue to the quarterly court, for which' petitioner had applied on motion and affidavit alleging that the justice of the peace would not afford petitioner a fair and impartial trial, and that the justice of the peace…