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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], The situation at Chattanooga. (search)
Hustings Court --Judge Lyons presiding.--The following cases of felony were tried and disposed off in this court yesterday. William Parker, indicted for garroting Louisa Jones, and robbing her of $80. Tried and found not guilty by the jury. John Smith and Charles J. Mitchell, indicted for garroting Hugh B. Arnold, and robbing him of his watch and $35 in money. The evidence showed this case to be an exceedingly aggravated one. Besides the robbery, Arnold was severely choked and beaten. The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they were sentenced each to the penitentiary for five years. As soon as the sentence was passed the prisoners were started to their new habitation. Jesse White, indicted for the murder of John J. Andrews; and Robt. S. Ford, for the murder of Robert E. Dixon, were called, and important witnesses being absent, their trials were continued till the next term, and they remanded to prison.
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Federal account of the battle of Chickamauga. (search)
Found guilty. --James Smith, Michael Holland, and Patrick Livingston, indicted for garroting and robbing Philip L. Gregory, on the night of the 18th of May, have been tried before Judge Lyons, of the Hustings Court. Smith and Holland were found guilty, and their punishment ascertained at six years in the Penitentiary. Livingston was acquitted, because of the fact that the witness for the Commonwealth was not positive as to his identity.