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charge that the act was feloniously committed was fatal to the indictment. " The rule has since been recognized in other States. Judge Theodore L. Burnett was for eight een years the city's attorney, having been elected, without opposition, six times. He was a member of the Confederate Congress and is a courteous, elegant gentleman. His son, John C. Burnett, is his law partner and they form a very strong firm. An other son, Gilbert, died in New York a few years ago. Al though he had been a short time at the New York bar, he had established a fine reputation and seemed destined for honors. Two of the great est students and most learned mem bers of the Louisville bar are С. В. Sey mour and L. M. Dembitz. Gen. Basil W. Duke is a man of unusual attainments and intellectual force. GEN. BASIL "His grandmoth er," says Colonel Johnston, "was a sister of Chief-Justice Mar shall, and the family is perhaps as conspicuous for distinguished membership as any in the United States." He was a gallant soldier, and it was said, " He was the soul and brains of the Morgan brigade." He was for six years commonwealth's attorney. He is now connected with the law department of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Lyttleton Cooke has been the district attorney for Kentucky of the L. & N. R. R. for twenty-five years. He is a forcible and clear speaker. While in the Kentucky Sen-

ate, in 1872, he moved: "No one shall be incompetent as a witness because of his race or color." It was the first law which allowed negroes full rights to testify in Kentucky courts. Judge H. W. Bruce, chief counsel at Louisville of the L. & N. R. R., has a record of which any man might be proud. He was a member of the Confederate Congress, judge of the ninth judicial district, chan cellor of the Louis ville chancery court, and professor of his tory and science of law in the University of Louisville. Judge George Du Relie, of the court of appeals, comes of distinguished ances tors. He is a clever lawyer and a genial gentleman. One of the ablest firms in the State is composed of James P. Helm and Helm Bruce. They are the son and grandson of Gov. John Helm and are also descended W. DUKE. from Ben Hardin, a lawyer of renown, so it is natural they should be leaders at the bar. Edward J. McDermott is a bright lawyer. He writes well and is a man of scholarly at tainments. Arthur M. Rutledge, who is a talented member of the Louisville bar, is the grand son of one of Kentucky's greatest lawyers, Joseph R. Underwood, and the descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Judge A. E. Richards was for a number of years a judge of the court of appeals. He was one of " Mosby's men," but it is dif