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A review of the judgments of the bench, in the Anderson extradition case; or, Seven ways of proving that Anderson should not be remanded with the judgments of the court appended - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... JUDGMENT OF THE COURT. Judgment was pronounced on Saturday by the Court of Queen-s1 Bench in the case of Anderson now in custody on the charge of having murdered a man in the State of Missouri, while making his escape from slavery. The Court-room was densely crowded, a considerable portion of those present being of the same race as the prisoner. Anderson havingbeen brought into the Court at twelve o'clock, the Judges proceeded to read the decisions at which they had arrived. It will be seen that Chief Justice Robinson and Mr. Justice Burns concurred in refusing the application for Anderson's discharge, while Mr. Justice McLean took strong ground that he was entitled to be discharged. A profound silence was maintained in the Court during the reading of the judgments, and no demonstration of feeling was made by the audience except that when Mr. Justice McLean had finished reading his Opinion there was a burst of ap- plause. The Chief Justice marked his disapprobation of this proceeding by half rising from bis seat and looking towards the Sheriff, who authoritatively commanded silence. The prisoner, an intelligent-looking man, listened with the closest attention to the learned Judges as they read their judgments. When all was over, a shade of disappointment rested on his countenance. It was very evident that he was painfully sensible of the horrible results that would follow his being consigned to the tender mercies of a jury of slaveholders--the fate allotted to him by a majority of the Judges. The following are the judgments:--Chief Justice Kobinson said:--On the 20th November, 1860, a writ of habeus corpus was granted returnable in the Queen's Bench, to bring up the body of John Anderson, detained in the custody of the Sheriff of the County of Brant, with t...
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