Judge John Curtiss Underwood, of the Circuit Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia, orders the release of former President Jefferson Davis, of the confederate States, on a 100,000 Dollar bond.
NOTE: This was a violation of Davis’ Right to a Speedy Trial, as he was held for two years of pre-trial confinement. The two years of pre-trial confinement and the “fine” amounted to an extrajudicial punishment as the bond was never returned to him. A trial would have no doubt would have become a forum on the constitutionality of secession.
[restored 5/1/2022]
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References:
H.J. Eckenrode, Jefferson Davis: President of the South, (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 357-58
Ronald Gibson, ed., Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy: and Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes, (Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana, 1977), 5.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 195.
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