State v. Sisson

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari brought by the defendant, who stands indicted for driving a motor vehicle so as to endanger life and limb resulting in death, to review the action of a justice of the superior court, sitting for the county of Kent, denying his motion for a change of venue.

General laws, 1923, chapter 323, secs. 21, 22 and 23 provide that whenever, upon petition by either party to any proceeding civil or criminal, it shall be made to appear “to the satisfaction of the superior court” that, by reason of local prejudice, the petitioner cannot have “a full, fair and…