Crocker v. Justices of the Superior Court

The petitioners were indicted for a felony. Seasonably they presented motions, suggesting that because of “ local prejudice and other causes ” they could not have an impartial trial in the county of Suffolk, and asking that the proceeding be removed to another county for trial. Thereafter, an order was entered by a judge of the Superior Court,* which as amended was as follows: “ I refuse to hear the parties on the several motions of the defendants that the court order a trial of these indictments in some county other than the county of Suffolk, believing that I have no jurisdiction to…