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The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Vice-President Stephens on Martial law. (search)
the public; and he would say in behalf of the prisoner, in respect to the warrant for horse- stealing, Rucker expected to prove a good title to the horse; that he could repel the charge of murder, and as to the charge of treason against the State, he was willing to stand a fair trial. Rucker has been held for a month in close confinement by the Confederate States, when there were not charges against him, as the return to the writ (which was the only evidence before His Honor) showed. Mr. Aylett replied that, in order that no blame should attach to the Confederate Government for holding the prisoner in custody, he would say that he was so held for bridge burning, and for being captured in company with the enemies of the Confederate States, and in Yankee uniform. Mr. Crane said all this was aside and irregular in this matter; his remarks had been induced by the opposite counsel's reading the return, &c., and he repeated that the return to the write did not show that Rucker was