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The Judge Advocate’s reply was brief, and owing to the rapidity with which he read, it was impossible for us to distinctly eatch much he said. He insisted that the pistol was fired at Eddins; that Eddins on- Iy turned on Rundolph when thus attack- ed; that Eddins was ent by Randolph; that the firing of the pistol and the cut- ting were sufficiont ovidence of malico and intent to kill; that Eddin’s self-contradic- tious grew out of his confused recollection of Thots occurring under the circumstan- ces of the diflicnity; that Eddin’s oharao- ter was sustained by tho tesiimony of the negro Hatter, who had known him for tiro years; and that it was necessary for the protection of society, that the accused (to whoin lre alluded as a ‘coudemned fulon’) should be found guilty and punished. He cited a number of lognl authorities to sus- tain his assumptions of the law. The case is closed. We understaud the decision of the Court is made np; but of course until it shall lave been acted upon by Geueral Meade it will not be mado pub- lic, The charge is, that Rylaud Randolph unlawfully and with malice ‘aforothonght did assanlt que Balus Eddins, a freedinan of color, with intent felonionsly and with malico aforethought to murder him the said Balus Eddins. There was 110 other charge, no other specification, agaiust the accused. For this lhe s.been tried; and of this he has been acquitted, or for this he has beeu con- demmed. The trial has been a tedious one. Be- fore all military. courts, all evidence is re- duced to writing, and all the pleas and ar- giments of conusel are read and put on re- cord. The court is cleared wheuever it becomes necessary for it to decide any point arising in the progress of the case. The Judge Advocate’s reply was brief, and owing to the rapidity with which he read, it was impossible for us to distinctly eatch much he said. He insisted that the pistol was fired at Eddins; that Eddins on- Iy turned on Rundolph when thus attack- ed; that Eddins was ent by Randolph; that the firing of the pistol and the cut- ting were sufficiont ovidence of malico and intent to kill; that Eddin’s self-contradic- tious grew out of his confused recollection of Thots occurring under the circumstan- ces of the diflicnity; that Eddin’s oharao- ter was sustained by tho tesiimony of the negro Hatter, who had known him for tiro years; and that it was necessary for the protection of society, that the accused (to whoin lre alluded as a ‘coudemned fulon’) should be found guilty and punished. He cited a number of lognl authorities to sus- tain his assumptions of the law. The case is closed. We understaud the decision of the Court is made np; but of course until it shall lave been acted upon by Geueral Meade it will not be mado pub- lic, The charge is, that Rylaud Randolph unlawfully and with malice ‘aforothonght did assanlt que Balus Eddins, a freedinan of color, with intent felonionsly and with malico aforethought to murder him the said Balus Eddins. There was 110 other charge, no other specification, agaiust the accused. For this lhe s.been tried; and of this he has been acquitted, or for this he has beeu con- demmed. The trial has been a tedious one. Be- fore all military. courts, all evidence is re- duced to writing, and all the pleas and ar- giments of conusel are read and put on re- cord. The court is cleared wheuever it becomes necessary for it to decide any point arising in the progress of the case.