The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-05-29

An AGGRAVATED CASE. This was a
case Of the People rs. Horace Angel, indicted
for an assault upon one Chester o. Arnold, on the
thirtieth day of April last, the circumstances
Of which were mentioned some time sincs in the
Republican.
The case was tried before Justice LsRue, on
Friday afternoon, and excited considerable inter
est in our community.
A Jury was empaneled. aud the Attorney for
the People opened in due form, stating the ground
upon which action was brought, and that it Twas
verv aggravated case, hoped it would be thor
sughly examined" g.. Tie complaining wit
pess. Arnold, was then sworn. He allowed that
he wa "rcsiieHter" Of these parts, and was en-
gagged in the "rectityiug business, whether he
"recti6ed" the morals of community we did not
learn, but understood that his business is some-
thing Of a drug in the market. Sail he was
present at the time Of the assault upon his
person." ielt il was an attacx upon his honor, and
that he was justified in applying legal remedy.
Said he wasn't saying much Of anything, only
"somebody asked him what right the South had
to secede, and he said they had the same right
to secede from Us that we had from Great Britain. V
Angel said lac was talking secession, aud ordered
him off, He went-came back in about five min
utes Angel came up again and told him to
leave Said he would, and "had jus. turned
round TO 60 a. Angel came up and kicked him,
and then followed him up, throwing eggs at him.
Il appeared that he did not consider himself
much Of military man, but rather guessed he
made "quick time "-thought the eggs were
very like sire in the rear" and was very sure
they would have hit him in the back " il he had
not dodgei. tie complained Of the severity of
the injury he had received, - "was sure An
CELL wore a heavy cowhide boot, from the sensa.
tioa it produced" Said he never fel, so before,
hadn't got over it yet, but was quite comfortable
in a standing position" Didn't know whether
It made any mark or no;--hadN't looked to see. |"
He said he had been talking with some vo!un.
teers from WILLIAMSON and was quite sure he
had their sympathy In fact I" they had told him
they were sorry he hadn't pitched into Angel
and whip; him, and that they would have helped
him." On being asked SCI If i, was not Angel in.
stead Of him tha. they said they would have
helped" he replied ,ha; .he didn't know but it
was'
II vac proved bv further evidence that he had
hoped the South oull carry their point clear
through-was glad Sumter ws- taken. and tho't
twas right for the srcessionists to take the gov
eminent property" We wonder at the forbcar-
aaee exhibited toward a man who was guilty Of
such reasonable language, and the jury seemed
70 view it in the same light. They were perhaps
somewhat Influenced in their decision by the fact
that the kicking vas not directly sworn to except
Q! this Arnold, (who certainly ought to have
Known whether it WAS administered or not), and
that there was also conflicting testimony with re.
gard to What Douglas would have done, had be
oeen presen. in such crisis During the trial
me jury vas granted recess. for the purpose Of
eosoi'ng the older members to procure ''glasses
suitable to their respective ages, in order tina,
'ney might obtain clearer view Of the subject
80 more closely inspect the evidence in the case
AZ ne close, after brief delibcration, the Dc.
'endant vas promptly and honorably acquitted
the jury, and thus ended the farce.
Had this miscreant, Arnold, been az ardent q
ess''e q he is traitor, and had he been address.