[wideawake]

reference please

Case of Davis, 7 F. Case 63 (C.C.D. Va. 1867)

C. Ellen Connally did a lengthy piece on the case in the 2009 University of Akron Law Review.

This was the appeal that Davis brought to the Federal Circuit Court in Virginia - the history of the case is extremely complex, and he fought it in court for close to four years.

[central_va]

In December 1868 the court rejected a motion to nullify the indictment, but the prosecution dropped the case in February 1869.

Davis motioned the court three years post war.