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by partiality, or prejudice, no cases have been reported to me in which any civil officer or authority, vested with the power of allowing or regulating the institution of criminal proceedings has refused justice to a colored person by improperly neglecting a complaint or declining to receive an oath or known information whereby a trial or prosecution might have been presented through partiality or prejudice.

At the Prince Edward term of the Circuit Court Judge H H Manhall presiding. I thought in one case the sentence was unnecessarily severe - the prisoner Joe Bell was charged with burglariously and feloniously breaking with and entering the dwelling house of Jno. B. Mc Gehee in the night time and taking therefrom and carrying away lard, molasses, and sole leather to the value of Fifty Dollars. In this case I am of the opinion that the evidence did not clearly sustain the charge and in