Coit v. Elliott

William B. Coit, on the6tbof December, 1873, represented to this court that he was indicted by the grand jury of Ouachita county for forgery of records in the office of the Ouachita circuit clerk’s office; that he was tried, convicted, granted a new trial, and that before the continuance of said cause by the judge of said court, his counsel arose and proposed to file a motion to change the venue in said cause, on the ground that said judge would not give the relator a fair and impartial trial; that said judge declared and announced that no such motion should be filed, and on his own motion,…