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CRIMINAL CoURT--SATURDAY DEC. 13, 1916
On motion ofMr. FENDALL, William Rufus
Elliott was brought into Court, when, after
an argument from that gentleman and an adj
dress from General Jones on the same side,
the District Attorney also appearing and re-
sisting the motion made for ElIiott's imme-
diate discharge on the presentment. made by
the Grand Jury, which Elliott's counsel
contended was an acquittal, the Court deliv-
cred the following written opinion


UNITED STATES versus w. II. ELLIOTT


The Grand Jury of this county, charged
at the present term to inquire into all often
ces against the peace and the government OF
the United States, on the 10th instant re-
turned the following presentment: "The
JURORS Of the United States for the county
aforesaid do upon their oaths present VIM.
r. Elliott for causing the death Of w. z.
Kendall, by shooting him with pistol in
self-defence, when he was attacked by and
twas retreating from the said Kendall on or
about the 23d day Of August 1845."


The defendant has been confined in the
jail of the county since the commission Of