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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Georgia. (search)
he proceedings at once commenced. The question being upon the motion of the prisoner's counsel to postpone the examination on account of her insanity, Mr. Marmaduke Johnson addressed the Court. He maintained that this was a trial, and by whatever name this examination might be called, this Court had no right to pass judgment hey did not ask the discharge or acquittal of the party, but merely a postponement of proceedings until such time as she was in a condition to understand them. Mr. Johnson spoke at considerable length and with much eloquence, describing the condition of the prisoner in striking language, and appealing to the Court in pathetic termudge Lyons to admit Mrs. Kirby to bail. The prisoner was attended during the examination by her three children and two female companions. The crowd in the court-room was very dense, and her incoherent exclamations were the only sounds that broke the silence of the scene during the delivery of Mr. Johnson's eloquent address.