Duff v. State

The right of the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, to a change of venue is the only question involved in this case. A complaint was made before *573the circuit court commissioner for Forest county charging the defendant with unlawfully possessing privately distilled liquor and the destruction of evidence under the Severson Act. He waived a preliminary examination and was bound over to the circuit court for trial. The case was placed on the calendar for trial at the April, 1924, term and the arrest was made after the term had opened. On being bound over to the circuit court for…