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guaranteed to him by the Constitution. He
was a Lawyer by Profession. My son (said
old Esqr. Estill) you shall have a special
trial" meaning thereby, that they would
release him, in some way before morning
I was again summoned to the bed side
of my dying boy - and again & again to the
court room. In this way I was kept running
"to & fro" until midnight, & when the
Worships determined to go into the trial
Two or three witnesses were examined
to prove the Wounding &c. Doct. Mathias
S. Dixon was examined to prove that the
wound, was mortal. Doct. Wallis Estill
was examined, as a Witness by the prisoner, &
deposed that the wound was not mortal
that none of the balls had passed into the
cavity of the body, & in his opinion, the wounded
man, would be well in a short time.
Dr. Dixon deposed, that the load had passed
into the cavity of the body, that he had passed
two or three of his fingers thro the [?]
into the cavity (Estill had voluntarily
come or had been sent to examine the condition
of the wound, doubtless for the purpose
of swearing what he did. He was a
personal enemy to both my son & myself
bitter, vindictive, unrelenting enemy
decidedly one of the most unprincipled
men I ever knew.)
Their Worships decided, that Anderson
should be bound over to court, to answer
for an assault & battery, on the body of
Thos. P. Taul. Turney undertook, with the
assistance of John Handley to write the