Beauchamp v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Vigo Circuit Court for the murder of George Mickelberry. By a change of venue, on the application of the prisoner, the cause was transferred for trial to the county of Parke, which is in the seventh judicial circuit. JudgeBn/¿m¡í, the president of *that circuit, being absent, Judge McDonald, the president of the tenth judicial circuit, took his place, and presided over the Parke Circuit Court during the trial of the prisoner, which terminated in his conviction and sentence of death. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse the judgment.

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