Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-09

The reports of the clerks for the year so, /
have not been able to obtain access to. They will
doubtless exhibit a state of facts favorable to
Judge Wilson. The reports for the year 81,
L have just received, and find the excess of
suits decided over Judge Leigh to be, at Law,
lS3-decrees in chancery-Interlocutor 49,,
Final go Making in the aggregate an excess of
255 suits for the year 81.
The two years Immediately preceding 40,
the health of Judge Wilson was so precarious
and his sufferings so uninterrupted, as almost
entirely to preclude the possibility of his per-
forming any business. The comparison which
have made, therefore, could not have ended
at a period more unfavorable. The result of
that comparison is nevertheless most factoring.
Notwithstanding tho large amount of business
which the foregoing figures prove to have been
performed by Judge Wilson on his civil docket,
the number of criminal prosecutions decided in
his courts has been unusually large. In LYNCH
burg alone. the criminal business has occupied
the time of the Court, to the exclusion of all
other business. upon an average of several
weeks in each term. The cases connected with
the Bank OF Virginia delalcation occupied the
Court tor many weeks; at the last term of the
court in the fall of '50,) more than six weeks
were consumed in the trial ofprisoners arraigned
Tor felony-two of them being charged with
murder. There were seven convictions for fell
ony at this term of the Court.
Upon careful comparison of the reports of
the clerks it will be ascertained that in no other
circuit OF the State except that ofJudge Thomp-
SON. (who receives an extra salary of S5OO) ha.
the amount and nature of the business transacted
been larger, more onerous and difficult, and vet
1t has been encountered with unequaed energy
and industry and discharged with commendabIe
dispatch. 1t is a fact which occurs several times
in the reports of the clerks, that Judge Wilson
decided more suits in his Lynchburg court, than
several of the Judges in all the courts of their
circuit. These services the people cannot fail
to appreciate and suitably to acknowledge
The disease which in manner impaired
the strength and usefulness of Judge Wilson.
for several years past, am truly glad to know.
has been permanently subdued, and the system
upon which it preyed, restored to its original vi
gor. With health entirely regained renewed
physical energy and life, an intelectinit its noon
day, judgment matured and perfectly dolphin
ed, thorough knowledge of the law, and ac-
complished in all the amenities OF professional
and private intercourse, he presents to his fellow
citizens a combination of every essential uualif-
cation of the just and upright Judge. After
twelve years of faithful and arduous labor in the
public service, the ermine, unstained even by
the breath ofsuspicion, has been taken from his
shoulders, (may not safely predict,) to be re-
stored with more of honor in the approving
voice of a virtuous and intelligent people. l
have confidence in the justice, integrity and
sound Judgment of the people. I have great
confidence in the republicanism of the people.
A member the Lynchbmg Bar