The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1863., [Electronic resource]

Hustings Court, Thursday, March 5th.

John McKinley was held for receiving a barrel of whiskey, stolen by some unknown parties from Joseph Brummel, of this city. The article was valued at $840. The jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of not guilty, and the defendant was discharged from custody. James McCabe, who was implicated in the transaction to the extent of being the party from whom McKinley purchased the liquor, had his case continued until the next term, and was remanded to jail.

James H. Sanders was tried for stealing a $200 gold watch and sundry articles of wearing apparel, the property of Joseph F. Redford. The evidence was entirely circumstantial, but bore rather hardly against the accused. The jury, however, acquitted defendant, and he was discharged.

Judge Lyons refused to grant a new trial to William R. Warden, convicted of getting lard from John O. Taylor by false pretences, and sent to the Penitentiary for two years. In this care the friends of the prisoner intend to apply to the Governor for a pardon, basing the application on his youth and unexceptionable character heretofore.

The Court to-day completed all the cases on its criminal docket. During the term thirty one men and boys have been sent to the Penitentiary for various offences. About five were acquitted.