12-11-1871: “Mr. [U.S. District Attorney D.T. ] Corbin . . . was awaiting the decision of the Court upon the question of the validity of the counts charging a violation of the right to keep and to bear arms–a right which he thought he might as well state here was most continually and malignantly infringed..."

“Mr. [U.S. District Attorney D.T. ] Corbin . . . was awaiting the decision of the Court upon the question of the validity of the counts charging a violation of the right to keep and to bear arms–a right which he thought he might as well state here was most continually and malignantly infringed, and a violation of which nearly all the indictments charged.”, Dec. ll, 1871