People v. Harris

By the Court, Bronson, Ch. J.

Crimes, as to the place of accusation and trial, are local. The public prosecutor must *152show an offence committed in the county where the indictment was found, or the accused will be entitled to an acquittal. The venue is never changed: but when the indictment has been removed into this court, we can, in a proper case, allow a suggestion to be made on the record, and order the trial to be had in a different county from that in which the indictment was found. The statute says this may be done in “ special cases but it does not specify what those cases are. (2 R. S.…