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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Martial law — a Legal Decision in Petersburg about it. (search)
Martial law — a Legal Decision in Petersburg about it. In Petersburg on Friday, R. N. Wilkinson and Jacob T. Crowder, charged with selling liquor in the city, were carried before Judge Gholson and discharged from the custody of the military authorities. George N. Browder, who was also up on habeas corp as for selling liquor in the military camps around the place, was remanded into the hands of the military authorities. The counsel for the Government took an appeal from the decisions in the first two cases and they are to be carried before the Supreme Court of Virginia. The points made by Judge Gholson in the cases named are as follows: 1. That the objection to his jurisdiction was not a valid one. 2. That the President's proclamation of martial law was founded on the act of Congress of February 27, 1862, authorizing him to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and that inasmuch as that act had expired martial law had ceased to exist: 3. That the order of Gen. Fr