Shaw v. State

Mr. Justice 'Swiggart

delivered tlie opinion of tlie Court. ■

The petitioner, E. M. Shaw, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Haywood County for murder in the first degree, and secured a change of venue to the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County. He made application to the circuit judge of the latter county for hail, which was denied, and now seeks the writ of certiorari from this court, to review this action of the circuit judge.

A certified copy of the record of the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County, filed with the petition for the writ of certiorari, recites that upon the hearing of the…