Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: ReminiscencesMoore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, printers, 1858 - 640 pages |
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... Court , for other reasons of course . The court - houses were either frame or log buildings , arranged to hold the court in one end and the grand - jury in the other . The petit - jury being accommodated in some neighboring out ...
... Court , for other reasons of course . The court - houses were either frame or log buildings , arranged to hold the court in one end and the grand - jury in the other . The petit - jury being accommodated in some neighboring out ...
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... court a great affair . The people came hundreds of miles to see the judges , and hear the lawyers " plead , " as they called it . On one occasion there came on to be tried before the jury an indictment for an assault and battery against ...
... court a great affair . The people came hundreds of miles to see the judges , and hear the lawyers " plead , " as they called it . On one occasion there came on to be tried before the jury an indictment for an assault and battery against ...
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... Court , Judge Eggleston took his seat on the bench , as the successor of the Hon . John Watts . The judge was a young Virginia lawyer , a cousin of the Hon . Wm . S. Archer , of the U. S. Senate . He was a fine scholar and a well read ...
... Court , Judge Eggleston took his seat on the bench , as the successor of the Hon . John Watts . The judge was a young Virginia lawyer , a cousin of the Hon . Wm . S. Archer , of the U. S. Senate . He was a fine scholar and a well read ...
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... court , to afford an opportunity to test the legality of the conviction in the Supreme Court . The judgment was affirmed by the last judicial tribunal and the record returned . The people in Dearborn almost in mass signed a petition to ...
... court , to afford an opportunity to test the legality of the conviction in the Supreme Court . The judgment was affirmed by the last judicial tribunal and the record returned . The people in Dearborn almost in mass signed a petition to ...
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... Court , where jury after jury , at successive terms had disagreed ; and now came on the final trial . The people of the country in mass were in the court - house , the jury in the box , and the lawyers in their seats when I entered the ...
... Court , where jury after jury , at successive terms had disagreed ; and now came on the final trial . The people of the country in mass were in the court - house , the jury in the box , and the lawyers in their seats when I entered the ...
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