State v. Dudley

— The information charges the defendant with keeping a common bawdy house. (Revised Statutes, 1889, sec. 3811.) The cause originated before a justice of the peace in Oregon county, where the defendant was found guilty. He thereupon appealed to the circuit court of that county, where he applied for a change'of venue on the ground that the inhabitants of Oregon county were prejudiced against him. His affidavit stated that ‘ ‘the same state of facts as above stated existed in the counties of Howell, Ozark and Shannon.” The defendant thereupon prayed that the venue be changed to some county where…