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26th.  I am confirmed in the opinion their impressed that the magistrate, Dr J.A Smith. acted without authority in admitting the accused to bail.  The case was brought before the County Court at its last session, which removed the bail, as I believe it was authorized to do by law, and the trail was postponed until the November Term.  Bail was required in the sum of $2000.00. and was given by the father of the accused.  It is stated that an effort will be made to prove that young Doswell is of unsound mind, and committed the deed in a fit of temporary insanity,  I forward herewith a copy of the finding of the corner's Jury in this case.  Whatever the meaning may have been which the Jury attached to the words "without malice, and with no intention to kill", nothing is more apparent from the facts, than that the deed was committed in the heat of passion, without provacation, after threats of killing had been made, and that the means which Doswell employed were as certain of accomplishing the end, as though he had deliberately fired a loaded rifle

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