Coleman v. Wooley's

Judge Geaham

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was instituted by Wooley setting up in his bill several demands against Mrs. Coleman, and particularly a claim of five hundred dollars as a fee for defending, at her instance, her son, who was charged with . having committed murder. The other claims of Wooley are but slightly resisted.

The proof very clearly shows that Wooley was employed by Mrs. Coleman to defend her son; that he, as the lawyer of the accused, attended before the examining Court and at one term in the Circuit Court, but previous to the trial on the indictment, he had…