Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Judge Allen” in article 12 of The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
...corpus, ordered him to be hung, whereupon his counsel telegraphed the fact to the President, who ordered the prisoner to be handed over to the civil authorities.
He will accordingly be tried before Judge Allen . Mr. Coffman being a citizen, and not a soldier, the military authorities have no jurisdiction over him.--Staunton (Va.) Spectator.
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