Bixby v. State

This writ of error returnable to the present term, brings up the record of the conviction of David Bixby, in the Hempstead Circuit Court, of murder in the second degree, for which offence he was sentenced to, undergo confinement in the penitentiary for a term of years. The indictment had been preferred in the county of Pibe, where the offence was committed, and tbe venue changed to the county of Hempstead, pursuant to the statute, upon the application of the prisoner, setting forth a prejudice against him in the minds of the people of Pike county. The transcript returned with the writ of…