Richmond Circuit Court, yesterday.Judge Meredith presiding.
--In the matter of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus of Henderson Phillips, of Henry county, who sues for a discharge from service in company C, Fifty- seventh regiment Virginia infantry, on account of having been elected a justice of the peace for said county. The evidence in the case proving that he had been duly elected, received the Governor's certificate, and been duly qualified as such, the court decided that he was not liable to military duty, and thereupon ordered his discharge from said company C.Mr. Barksdale, of the Virginia Legislature, represented the affiant.
