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of the court is held in abeyance by the students of Washington College that is to say, cases are postponed even that the students may be absent when such trials take place. From the confessions [[strikethrough]] shown [[/strikethrough]] made in a petition forwarded to Maj Genl. Schofield lately, signed by some 114 citizens of Rockbridge Co. it appears that except under certain circumstances justice cannot be obtained in the Court of Rockbridge Co.

I do not consider that the Freedmen in any important case, especially criminal, can obtain justice ags't a white man.

Caesar Griffen Freedboy now in jail for wounding Judge Brokenbrough's son has been held in bail for $600 before he can be released and this in the face of the perfect health of the white boy Judge Brokenbrough son who was in court perfectly well [[strikethrough]] in health [[/strikethrough]] the ball never having entered his body & only cut the skin of his breast-: Besides being present at the Examining Court and having taken full and complete notes of all the evidence I am of the opinion that the boy is wholly

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