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reasonable cause for allowing a writ of error, then the writ shall be granted by order indorsed on the back of such record, in which case the clerk of the supreme court shall issue a supersedeas, which shall have the effect to stay the execution of the sentence, but not to discharge the prisoner from custody. Party, how liberated, until writ determined.If the party applying for such writ of error shall, at the same time be in custody, under the authority of the judgment prayed to be superseded, and the said court or justice shall be of opinion that the party obtaining such writ of error, ought to be bailed until the determination of such writ of error, the said supreme court or justice may make an order to discharge such prisoner from custody, upon the prisoner entering into a recognizance to the territory, before the sheriff of the county where he or she shall be imprisoned, in such sum and with such security, as said court or justice shall prescribe; which recognizance shall be conditioned that the prisoner will appear at the next district court, to be holden in the county where the trial of such prisoner took place, and at each subsequent term of the district court, on the first days, until the determination of such writs of error, and that he will be present and submit to such order as the supreme court shall make in the premises, and will not at any of the terms of said court in which he shall be bound to appear by said recognizance, depart the court without leave. The recognizance, so taken, shall be returned to the next district court and there entered of record, and such proceedings may be thereon had, in case of the breach of the condition of such recognizance of such, as shall be according to the course to the common law: Proviso.Provided, however, That in cases where corporeal punishment is inflicted, the prisoner shall in no case be bailed upon the affirmance of any judgment brought into the supreme court, by virtue of this section; the said court shall order and direct the district court to carry into effect the judgment of the court below. In case of affirmance, judgment shall be given for costs against the party prosecuting such writ of error, and execution shall issue thereupon from the supreme court.

Of change of venue.Sect. 199. When any defendant, in any indictment or information in any court in this territory, shall fear that he will not receive a fair and impartial trial in the court in which the trial is pending, on account that the judge is prejudiced, or