previous next

Circuit Court of the City of Richmond.

--Before Hon. John A. Meredith, Judge, (in vacation.)--James M. Seeds, a prisoner confined in the county jail, petitioned the Judge on the 8th inst., for a habeas corpus, which was returnable to the 11th inst. On the 11th the petitioner was brought before the Judge, and the returns being made by the Sheriff of Henrico as to the cause of his detention in jail, viz: that he was committed on the 13th of November last, by order of Brig.-General Winder, on Seeds's motion further proceedings were postponed until February 13th. On yesterday the petitioner was again brought into court, when, at the instance of P. H. Aylett, Confederate District Attorney, further proceedings were postponed until to-day at 4½ o'clock.--Samuel Tatum, who was one of the capturers of the St. Nicholas steamer, and who has been in confinement several months on charges affecting his loyalty, was also before Judge Meredith yesterday, but the case was like wise continued until to-day at Mr. Aylett's instance.

The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 14, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Henrico (Virginia, United States) (1)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
John A. Meredith (2)
P. H. Aylett (2)
Winder (1)
Samuel Tatum (1)
James M. Seeds (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
11th (2)
November 13th (1)
January 13th (1)
8th (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: