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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Judge William Brockenbrough. (search)
e them. I was in their court-room the afternoon when the eminent Benjamin Watkins Leigh obtained from them the bailing of the unfortunate young Simms, who so unnecessarily shot and killed Prof. John A. G. Davis, chairman of the Faculty of the University of Virginia. I have always thought that the manner of that great advocate towards the court on that occasion was rather imperious. The court occupied that room in the Capitol whose floor gave way with such tragic consequences on the 28th of April, 1870. It was the decisions of the court above referred to which Judge Brockenbrough reported, commencing with the June term, 1815, and ending with the June term, 1826. It can never do any harm for a lawyer to use his pen in behalf of his profession outside of his own professional duties. Our modern Virginia bar has furnished some striking illustrations of this in Benjamin Watkins Leigh, and his son-in-law, Conway Robinson; Prof. John A. G. Davis, and his brother-in-law, John B. Minor