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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], Important from Mexico. (search)
th were called, and all but two--Messrs. Ambrose Carlton and J. P. Tyler--responded. It was stated that the former was confined to his room by sickness. Mr. W. W. Crump, one of the prisoner's counsel, made an application for a continuance for a day or two. Mr. Johnson, another of the counsel, was absent, attending upon the Prttorney for the Commonwealth.--That is not the rule of the Court The Commonwealth is ready to go on. The Court — What is the ground of the application? Mr. Crump repeated that Mr. Johnson, who was the original counsel in the case, was absent. He himself had not even heard the testimony. In addition to this, he had been with regard to the sickness of the child, that was only a matter of hearsay. He saw no good reason for delaying the public business by postponing the case. Mr. Crump replied that a very novel and interesting question was to be argued. All the Commonwealth's witnesses were in the city and he did not see how the public busines