{"character_count": 958, "word_count": 173, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9684000015258789], "ccnet_perplexity": [1551.5], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
At special term of the Circuit Court of indepehd- cence county, held on tho 26h ult.,he Hon. LEWIS B. FULLY, presiding .4len Bell was indicted on charge of the murder of Mf. Vim. Compton, on :he 25th of May last. When the prisoner was brought to the bar 10 plead to the indictment, his counsel Pope and Noand filed plea to the jurisdiction o the eou' donving the constituonay of the Judges election; to which plea the Prosecuting Attorney, THoMAs JOHN SON, Esq., denarged, aud sustained hy the conri Whereupon the prisoner called upon to plead to the indictment and put in the usual plea of mot gull ty," and at the same me filed his affidavit for con tinuance, which was granted, and he trial was contn ued oyer until the next term.

 The Judge decided, that the Circuit Judgeship is a creature by the constitutions and that, in any event, plea ifs jurisdiction is not the proper node ol pro- ceedag to bring the question before the Supreme Court

 Ark Gag.