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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Lee, of Henrico county, on Saturday last. Upon the opening of the case, Mr. John B. Young, the prosecuting attorney, called to the witness stand Mr. George W. Butlhing about a "hostile" meeting, but simply that there had been a meeting. If Mr. Young understood him to use the word "hostile" at all, he was sure there was some mcolas was then called to the stand, when certain questions were propounded by Mr. Young with reference to the time and place where the duel between Mr. Elmore and Mr. Dr. Peticolas declined to make any answer to the interrogatories. Mr. Young then read from the acts passed by the Legislature of Virginia in the month oflf, I prefer to stand in the position I have already assumed." Whereupon Mr. Young renewed his motion that Dr. Peticolas be committed to jail for contempt of coLegislature on the subject of duelling were couched in the language quoted by Mr. Young, yet the decision of the courts, which were paramount to any State statute, h