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next term of the Circuit Court.| swordThe iiUspe Case.It is told of a celebrated Judge that in illustration of the “rglorious uncertainty of the la w,’* he was accustomed to remark jgu. foreknew all things, .except the jj^j^Bof^a petit jury. Wed(i not know that this thought was ever more forcibly •impressed on our mind than by the verdict of NOT GUILTY rendered in the case of the State against James II. DarnalL— We think such verdicts are not only outrages towards those most deeply injured, but are calculated to bring courts and laws into contempt, and lead those injured to take the administration of justice into their own hands. Of J;he guil of the defendant we apprehend not a man who heard the trial has the least doubt, and his escape from the punishment of human law is due to the misuse, yes, perversion of a precept of the law. That the jury believed him guilty wc have no doubt, indeed we have been informed that some of them so state, but the subtlety with which the •counsel for the defense plied the legal doctrine of doubts, especially in the closing argument, confused their judgments, and rendered them incapable of that discrimination they would have exercised, had they not been thus hampered.We do not question the integrity of the jury. Wilh some of them we a re acquain- : led, and we know them tube men of lion- ! •or. Nor shall we quarrel wit a the counsel. They have done no more'ban their profession justifies, so far as ire know.— And for the flattering notice ol ourself and other members of the family in their arguments, we return our thanks. Yet with all this, we know that justice has not been done, And we say this not in anger, but in sorrow, for we would not harm even the guilty author of sorrow to our family. And as to punishment, we believe in a Divine and unerring retribution. God knows we did not desire his conviction fro in any desire for his personal suffering, for we cherish no feeling of revenge against a human being.We repeat that the guilt of Darnal] is unquestionable. Not only was the evidence before the jury plain, positive, direct, and unimpeached, but we have learned since the trial of other testimony — Dar-nall’s confession made on tl.e very nisrht of the occurrence, which corroborates in every detail the story of tl.e injured lady. If this had been known before the trial it would have been produced, and of course settled the matter.We have debated with ourself for a longtime the propriety of publishing a full report of the trial. We desired to do so that the public might see how thoroughly the reputation of the victim of a shameless crime was vindicated. But the fact that the testimony of necessity contained much that was immodest, has deterred us. And with this notice 'we shall let all mention of the matter rest, so far as the paper is concerned, unless circumstances shall alter our mind. C,03“Putnar ed for i killing agree i ed. rI at the0'CrJournc road j combir raisins The pi experii for, ar are no it mui cause ther cr or oug suppoiTIOurconnec not enlt;: the li fact tl forts t itical c been i lisbed, the elc be ace so doii A si the Nlt; to the wrote it carcWcannowith,—thegerdoiseendBrookhoundmost ; holy, or car Has t indeet and slt; degen be hoi cateriiwarnetie nee the ft Sain pi ilia en and hi Damo lie, a; Heave Vilt; eglt; tuliom people that 1severe boaste Reput histori and c One We wyourtensivj
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Danville Advertiser
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 18, 1855
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