Ex parte Clements

This is an application for mandamus, to be directed to the honorable judge of the first judicial circuit, sitting in and for the county of Perry, to compel said judge to discharge the petitioner, James Clements, from further prosecution in the circuit court of said county on an indictment pending in said court, for a charge of murder of John Keeton. The grounds on which this application is made are — that said Clements was put on his trial in said court, on said charge for murder, and after some evidence in support of the accusation had been submitted to the jury, the trial was suspended, and…