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 Posted: Thu Dec 20th, 2012 11:09 am
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Barlow
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 Today, any U.S. Attorney feeling he/she has the evidence to indict and having personal jurisdiction (i.e. the acts are committed within the federal district) can bring a case against a defendant.  That is how Jim Garrison indicted persons on the killing of Kennedy (see:  Oliver Stone).  So, because Early and Lee entered Adams County and other Southern Penn. counties, and took ransom, the U.S. Attorney for Southern Penn. could have indicted Davis there.  I dont believe there is any mystic relation to the federal court in Virginia.

re:  Surratt.  Hancock waited for a order from President Johnson on the fateful July day for clemency or reduction to life in prison.  It did not come.  Anna Surratt was at the White House wailing and begging.  Johnson had plenty of time and opportunity to pardon or reduce.  In the end, Lew Wallace and others were just as well with the hanging of Mrs. Surratt.  Believe me, if Davis werent in Irwin Georgia, and was captured around April 15-July 7, he would have been invited to the necktie party.

Didn't he end up having a dalliance with the lady in Biloxi, much to Varina's displeasure?