McNealy v. State

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the couTt.

The plaintiffs in error were indicted in Jackson county for breaking and entering a gin-house and stealing a quantity of cotton. The indictment contained two counts. They moved the court for' a change of venue to some other county upon grounds stated in their affidavit, as follows:

“That they do not believe they can get a fair and impartial trial in the county of Jackson, on account of the, undue influence of the principal witnesses, who are prominent merchants in the count}r, over the minds of the inhabitants of Jackson county, and the great…