The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-07
Judge Cannot Designate Tribu,
nal for His Own Trial.
JUDGE WOOD WRITES LETTER
Declares His instructions to Jury Were
Misinterpreted or pisregarded, and
That a Case of Common
Assault Was Made-Bar
Association viii
Not Act.

Not Act.
The caynpbell-crawford cowhiding case
ss about the livest topic before the Flr-
ktnta public at present, and the discus
sion and development in connection there
with are taking all kinds Of interesting
Turns.
The trial of the case which has been
called a farce by the attorney for the
Commonwealth, was brought to the atten-
lion of The president of the State Bar
Association now in session at the hot
Springs through letter from that officer
on yesterday but it is not likely that
IL will be considered there
NICE POINT RAISED.
Ex-senator J.Thompson Brown, OF Me-
son, in a communication which VIII pe
found below, raises the point that there
has been no trial Of the Indictment against
Judge Campbell. on the ground that under
The law a county judge has not the au-
1hority TO select 3. judge to preside IN
his own case The Religious Herald
has opened its guns on what it designates
% ''travesty upon justice. and on an
hands the case is being discussed pro ana
con.
Members of the Legislature, for the
most part appear to srmpathiZe with
Judge Campbell and those who have
spoken on the subject are of opinion
lGat the case will not come up for IN
aestigation by that body
JUDGE WOODS STATEMENT.
but perhaps the most Interesting dis
closure In connection with The whole mat
t.sl on yesterday WAS a letter to The
Times from Judge Z. n. Wood, OF flu-
.alna. who presided at the trlal
Judge Wood makes objection to the rel
crtnce which was made 10 him III sun
Gay S Times as having been among the
I.a,,ilant friends of Judge Campbell at
HE latter's home after the trial, where
1acre was music and dancing.
He asks that a correction be MADE ana
Eat it be stated that he was pupilciS
aaNfieG BY Judge Campbell to spend the
b;Ctt with the latter after the trial had
hten concluded, Judge Wood says in his
ter that he had never met Judge Camp
n but once prior to the latters invita-
gi,m to sit il the case. and that. there
pc. there was no intimate friendship
D., sting between them
INSTRUCTIONS NOT REGARDED.
Bl;1 by far the most interesting declara
s'on contained in the letter is the follow
ing: Il stated a few minutes after the
-srdict that a case OF common assault
1,d been made out and that my instruc-
lions TO the jury had not been correctly
i,rerpreted or had been disregarded
This has never been previously brought
out. and will doubtless be read with great
.&tcrest.
The trial Of the Campbell case was
r5,ousht to the attention of Major L. 9
Elder president of the State Bar -Asso-
ration. in the following terse letter from
r.. %
tn Yesterday:
Amherst. Va, Aug. 5, 1902.
Hon. T. C. Elder. President Virginia Bar
Association, at Homestead, Hot
Springs, Va:
I,jndly call the attention Of the homer
able body over which YOU preside to the
1,aprant miscarriage OF justice in the
rarapbelI case tried here last Week; what
eii anomaly is this, that the accused Sc
tecycd the grand jury. chose The judge
pnd furnished the list from which the
sury was drawn to try his case. The in
.c,,ity of the bar the purity of the
judiciary and the honor of the State de-
tnand that action be taken in this mat
teI.
OTTO L. EVANS
rcmmonweelth's Attorney for Amherst
The fcdowng telegram came to The
Times from its Hot Springs correspond
tlt last night:
Yesterday. during the morning session.
President Elder received telegram
hJGned by Otto /. Evans Common
..ealths Attorney for Amherst county,
calling attention to the recent trial of
the Campbell-Cra wford case in Amherst
md apparently with view to having the
association take some action in the mat
1el at the present session.
This the association refuses to do. It
seemed to the president and Executive
t-OnN.r1i!tee ha ina
las been heard before the prcper tri-
aunal and is now pending before the Leg
Tiatrre, IT would be neither judicious or
Nise for the association to take any ac-
Oon al this time. especially as no formal
charges have been preferred against
.'ndge Campbell before the association.
Furthermore. Judge Campbell is not a
ncmber Of the association
Members OF tho association to whom /
lave spoken incline TO the opinion eX-
pressed above. Naturally. the cowhdi:ls
END trial have been prominent among
topics discussed here, as elsewhere. hut
so iaf as the matter being officially con
sldei'ed. such thing is not thought of
bt any member of the association
Sut whple volume could be written
sM TINS most interesting case. which Is
row upon ;he lips OF all, either in con-
desnnat0n @, or coamendation CT Judge
Campbell There are those who contend
that Judge Campbell viii stin remain a
powerful political factor in Amherst
county. and he Is being mentioned tv.
his friends for county clerk and o,ber
places of prominence when his term as
judge shall have expired. On the ether
hand. those opposed to him declare he
will never be able to rally his forces
with his old time success, and that re-
icent developments have weakened him
before the people of the county
WAS NOT ATTACKED.
1t was stated in The Times day or
two ago that during the celebration OF