Fish v. Benton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle.

Tbe petitioner, Grover C. Fisb, a resident of Madison county, was indicted by tbe grand jury of that *645county for the crime of murder, alleged to have been committed by his shooting and killing one Samuel C. Welch. At a recent term of the Madison circuit court, the judge thereof and respondent herein, the Honorable J. M. Benton, on the petition of the commonwealth’s attorney of the judicial district, filed in the case pending against the petitioner, granted a change of venue therein and transferred the case to the circuit court of Jessamine county for trial;…