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CRIMINAL COURT. - The Hon. Judge
CRAWFORD, who has been indefaiigable in
his Attendance during the December term Of
this Court, and who has discharged his re-
sponsibl,' and arduol,s duties for the last sew
Ell week with SO much apparent case and
accepta! ieness, brought It's business toa close
on Mo day last, when the Court was adj
jcurnc.l about 4 O'Clock in thealternoon, un-
Til the next term in course


In the course of Monday Mary r. Clark,
alias JMary Els, being brought before the
Court, under writ Of fhabsas corpus, the ev-
idcnce in support Of the charge against her
as the accomplice Of .Aibion Floyd, the hotel
lobbcr, was adluced. Messrs. Davidge s.
Nourse, counsel for the prisoner, conten,led
that the evidence was insufficient to cause
her detention, and the Court, being Of that
opinion, ordered her discharge from Gus
tody.


The argument on the motion for new
trial in the case of the United Sia,es. vs.
Chnrlcs .WiHiams, free negro, convicted Of
murder, was continued on Monday by Will
liam Woodward, Esq The points insisted
on by the prisoners counsel were:


lst Thar there was no evidence on the
trial that the offence charged was committed
III the county Of Washington.


2d. That the verdict was on the indict-
ment generally, I'm which there we:e twelve
counts, six cha gng the prisoner as free
man and six as a slave,) whereas Ga, six had
been abandoned by the posccalon afierbeing
overuled by the Circuit Court, and had not
been cn.esed Oh the record AS abandoned on
nohe prosequi) the verdict should have been
guilty on SIX and not guilty as to others.


The Court sustained The argument for an
arrest ofjndgment, being of the opinion The
record was defective. hessrs Fendal and
Carlisle were counsel for the prosecution.


MAJ. Int