In the law of evidence, a
credible witness is a person making testimony in a court or other tribunal, or acting otherwise as a witness, whose credibility is unimpeachable. Is it the same for a Military court trying civilians? They held one of them in captivity without pressing charges on him for three months in a cell with a board to sleep on and a bucket to defecate in and refused to release him until the conspiracy trial was over.
Take for instance Mr. Boston Corbett the supposed trigger man that shot the man in Garrett's barn.
He was a hatter in Troy, New York.
There has been speculation that the use of mercury as part of the hatter's trade was a cause of Corbett's later mental problems.
He became a reborn, evangelical Christian and changed his name to Boston. Trying to imitate Jesus, he began to wear his hair very long.
On July 16, 1858, in order to avoid the temptation of prostitutes, Corbett castrated himself with a pair of scissors. Afterward, he went to a prayer meeting and ate a meal before going for medical treatment.
He was captured by the Confederate Army on June 24, 1864, and was held captive at Andersonville Prison. He was eventually released and returned to his unit.
Why do you think the Rebels chose to release him from that hell hole?? maybe because he was a loony-tune
Corbett was immediately arrested for disobeying orders but the charges were dropped by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Later, Stanton said, "The rebel is dead. The patriot lives." Corbett received his share of the reward money, amounting to $1,653.85.
In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln's assassin was getting ready to use his weapons. This was denied by other witnesses.
His later life was not well-documented, but there are a number of stories regarding his increasingly erratic behavior: In 1875, he threatened several men with a pistol at a soldier's reunion in Caldwell, Ohio. In 1878, he moved to Concordia, Kansas where he lived in a hole dug into a hillside. In 1887, he was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka, Kansas. Overhearing a conversation in which the legislature's opening prayer was mocked, he jumped to his feet, pulled out his revolver, and waved his gun. No one was hurt. Corbett was arrested, declared insane, and sent to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane.
On May 26, 1888, Corbett escaped from the asylum. He went to Neodesha, Kansas, and stayed briefly with Richard Thatcher, a man he had met during his imprisonment at Andersonville in the Civil War. When he left, he said he was heading for Mexico. He was never heard from again.
scape·goat
ˈskāpˌgōt/Submit
noun
1.
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it
L.C.
shows over folks please exsit out the side doors and we will tell you how it ended tomorrow.....after we figure out what to say.....
L.C.
