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circumstances in which he was placed.
The Information was filed so long ago as the 18th April, charging Mr. Murrow with having published a malicious and defamatory libel against Mr. Baldwell. At the time, Mr. Murrow had no counsel; Mr. Bridges being so personally mixed in the different matters the subject of the libel that he could not hold a brief for the Defendant, and Mr. Pollard was privately retained by Mr. Baldwell. It ought to be mentioned that the names of these Gentlemen do not exhaust the roll of Practitioners here, but Mr. Murrow certainly did not seem to care for seeking assistance outside of them.
Mr. Murrow's Plea ought, in the regular course, to have been in before the 18th day of April, the regular day for holding the Sessions, but he got time to plead till the 10th May. In the meantime, he was laid up with an attack of ophthalmia, and at the May Sessions, he again asked for time; his request was unopposed and was again granted. On the 18th June, he filed what he conceived to be a plea of justification, but which (not merely in the legal sense) was a...