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The Daily Dispatch: October 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Mayor's Court, yesterday. --The case of William Bohannon, charged with shooting and killing, on Friday last, a little white boy named James J. Brooks, was sent on to the Hustings Court for examination. Mr. Crane, counsel for the accused, thought he could prove by competent witnesses that his client was mentally deficient, and therefore irresponsible in the eyes of the law for what it was alleged he had done; but the Mayor thought it was too grave a matter to dispose of so hastily, and therefore preferred that the committing court of magistrates should decide upon the case. Daniel Munn and J. R. Blankinship, soldiers, were charged with being very suspicious characters. On Monday night the front windows of the shoe store on the corner of Main and Fourteenth streets, kept by M. C. Gordon &Co., was dashed in, and soon afterwards, when the watchmen reached the spot, they found the accused near by. It was on this account that they were arrested. The Mayor was unable to detect a